Joshua Seftel, Bibi Bahrami, and Richard McKinney.
Joshua , excuse me.
Joshua Tree National Park.
Joshua for who is the co-founder of the website Atlas obscure comm and also one
Joshua traces the story of many heroes who worked to preserve the written legacy of Timbuktu
Joshua Bell, who was a violinist virtuoso, did an experiment with Washington Post many years ago where he set his violin case down in the Washington subway
Joshua and his colleague Nadia got to work setting her free, and they hit basically every conceivable obstacle
Joshua David: Thank you all for joining us today.
Joshua David: Still going?
Joshua David: Mmm.
Joshua David: So then, with that work done, we set about actually designing the park that would be on the High Line.
Joshua David: Mmm.
Joshua David: Mmm.
Joshua David: Free salad for a thousand people.
Joshua David: Yeah, at the end.
Joshua David: I think it is one of the real challenges that we're looking at right now and looking at different ways that we can address it.
Joshua David: Most of the trees have been selected to be moderate in size and to have root systems that deal with the very confined nature of the High Line.
Joshua David: And the, what was up there to begin with before we started, it was gravel.
Joshua David: Ultimately, it's a city project.
Joshua David: Mm-hmm.
Joshua is co-founder of Atlas Obscura an online guide to the world's wonders and curiosities and is also co-founder of the design competition, Sukkah City.
Joshua Foer: Thanks.
Joshua Foer: How are ya?
Joshua Foer: I don't know if more complexity is necessarily bad, it's the question it's superficial complexity.
Joshua Foer: Yeah, maybe.
Joshua Foer: Well, so I think this stuff, I think there is still some degree of control that we have over like the conditions in which this stuff is deployed.
Joshua Foer: Alright.
Joshua Foer: Or when Socrates was in academy.
Joshua Foer: Well first of all I would say, I mean I agree with you this is an old story, this is only sort of the latest chapter in a conversation that we've been having truly
Joshua Foer: that they weren't maybe when you were in high school.
Joshua Foer: can't invent anything; that still takes a human mind.
Joshua Foer: What's that?
Joshua Foer: I think if you're a kid growing up I think there are really like reasonable arguments to be made that my nephews who are going to grow up absolutely glued to their
Joshua Foer: Thanks. male #3: I enjoyed your book, by the way, -- Joshua Foer: Thank you.
Joshua Foer: Isn't that exactly the case that I'm making though that, I mean so once we've got the Google goggles that our, I mean I know actually Google goggles is actually
Joshua Foer: lab products which is image search -- male #3: Yes.
Joshua Foer: which I presume is a stalking horse for when that camera's gonna be sort of in my glasses and I'll immediately --
Joshua Foer: be able to search whatever I'm looking at and I'll have met you and I'll actually already know your name and your Facebook profile and --
Joshua Foer: No but the thing is, the question is as we sort of move towards that future where all of this information, there is no latency, in fact it'll be calling up stuff
Joshua Foer: Yeah except people don't seem to be doing that.
Joshua Foer: Um-hum.
Joshua Foer: So I guess one response to that is are you going to be interested in learning information when it is so immediately, shallowly available to you?
Joshua Foer: and if I want to, I take that extra moment to learn what kind of, to identify
Joshua Foer: But he still got a job.
Joshua Foer: I think it's a piece of it.
Joshua Foer: Thank you.
Joshua Foer: really thought of and may borrow from you.
Joshua Foer: Um-hum.
Joshua Foer: so I think you're right.
Joshua Foer: like a really epically big conversation that involved scientists, involved the government, involved farmers, involved consumers, McDonald's, K-Mart --