walter isaacson is joining me. walter, great to have you here.e, more than ever before. do you see some time where the growth in commercial space travel is really going to pick up? >> i think it's picking up now. this week, it's more people we have in space than ever before like that. and now this is not just a billionaire's boys club shooting things up, you know? especially with spacex and its new dragon capsule, crew capsule. it's been taking people to the international space station. i think there will be a lot more of these. it's not just space tourism i guess is okay. it's going to be for real missions, eventually, to colonize, put a colony on the moon and some day at least certainly elon musk is pushing for a colony on mars. >> jeff bezos congratulated elon musk behind the scenes. amazon has filed a protest over the space and satellite projects. is this going to get ugly? >> well, no. i mean, competition is a good thing. and i think competition built amazon and tesla. you're having competition on two fronts. one for the contracts to do thin

walter isaacson speaks to nasa chief bill nelson.

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walter isaacson speaks to nasa chief bill nelson.

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and professor of history at tulane university, walter isaacson.it discusses the rise of mob justice in today's culture and its long term effects. and you write in part this, the modern online public sphere, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid ideological prisms and arguments of 280 characters favors neither nuance nor ambiguity. yet the values of that online sphere have come to dominate many american and cultural institutions, universities, newspapers, foundations, museums. heeding public demands for rapid retribution they sometimes impose the equivalent of a lifetime scarlet letter on people who have not been accused of anything remotely resembling a crime. instead of courts they see rive beau rock caseys, instead of hearing evidence they make judgments behind closed doors. this is a story of moral panic, cultural institutions policing or purifying themselves in the face of disapproving crowds. the crowds are no longer literal, as they once were in salem but rather online mobs organized via twitter, facebook, or sometimes internal company slack c