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Day of Empire
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"Domestic Politics and International Relations"
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan's son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
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Eric Schmidt speaks at a Newhouse School event in conjunction with The New Yorker and Conde Nast on June 11, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Conversation is with Ken Auletta of The New Yorker.
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Short clip from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), where the USA President (by Peter Sellers) has a conversation with the Russian president in the war room.
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A Climate Change Conversation with Google Founders, moderated by Tom Friedman, held at the World Economic Forum's Annual General Meeting in Davos, January 2008.
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