If we go back to the FAA, there is-- and you and I have spoken about this before-- there has been a long-standing effort to modernize the air traffic control system. And I'll just say, it's generally known that the computers were basically invented in the Stone Age, which is roughly the 1980s,
And that's the -- more or less the bipartisan consensus. to modernize the economy and to make sure that we have an inclusive society.
If you were still at the Pentagon, and you were in charge of making recommendations about whether we should and if we should, how should we modernize our nuclear weapons? What would you say?
came through. That just shows you how wide spread the rooting for Deng Xiaoping was, and now you flash forward to the 21st century. Instead of the question of what will it take for China to modernize , and there parts of China of course which haven't experienced this kind of development or modernization, but we are now in a period where we can imagine a fully modernized China, in this kind of visions of infrastructure. Shanghai has more skyscrapers than New York. Not just New York, but the entire West Coast of the United States.
There are many organization in government that still operate like 1970s, 1980s. They have not modernized the processes. They still are stuck into control and command.
But it's possible. The "Archie" license model-- Right. --it's modernized , modernized "Star Wars." You mentioned kind of what drew you to the fandom in terms of how it felt and your mother. What was your first fandom experience?
from being a fairly poor country, to being a developed country? Now though, I think the big question outside in the world, but also to some extent in China is how will China's ability to have modernized and to be on the road toward further modernization affect its citizens and the world? It's not will China go from being a poor country to a less poor country which was what I think was expected then. But as the titles of the competition, "When China Rules the World" and books like, that are saying. Look at what a future will
for China to modernize , and there parts of China of course which haven't experienced this kind of development or modernization, but we are now in a period where we can imagine a fully modernized China, in this kind of visions of infrastructure. Shanghai has more skyscrapers than New York. Not just New York, but the entire West Coast of the United States. More skyscrapers. It has the fastest train on earth, and its landscape is being used.
people, or new middleclass. They organized via cell phone and instant messaging. These were not people who were against China modernizing, but they wanted more control of how exactly it was modernized . They thought that with this type of thing we should have some say, whether the government listens to us more. And they actually succeeded, at least for a time, in stopping the extension of the train line. The year before there had been similar kinds of protests in the city of Xiamen complaining
Makes sense. So part of the title is simple recipes. So we did try to modernize it.
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, And do you think we need to modernize it somehow?
As a professor in the university, do you do teaching? Or did you find another way to modernize it, or to-- You find mixtures of that.
And that particular paradox is one that has shaped the China we see today. The idea that it wants to modernize , that it wants to be open, that it wants to have a technological basis, but also that the party wants
so that when the treaty is signed, her bottles arrive first beating out the competition. Transformers often take older businesses and modernize them.
And you've inherited this structure. There are serious proposals how to modernize that. Where is that process?
We cannot win the future with a government of the past. And he was making an argument to modernize government and to become more responsive and effective. But he then went on to say something that I thought rather remarkable for a Democrat to say.
That never changes, so let's figure out some end run way of teaching computer science outside of the school system. And we took the approach that the school system needs to modernize . This is the chance to do it.
An example here also of the kind of poetry that young modern Chinese wrote to try and express their excitement at the possibilities of democratic change and technological change that could help modernize China. This poem here by the poem "Tian Gou"-- Heavenly Dog-- by , who became one of the most important poets of communist China
You can probably visualize him with his hat and his cigar. But the positive side of that was an attempt to modernize their own branch.
books filled with all this really terrible writing about porn. And my job was to go through them all and modernize it. It was thematically oriented to horny housewives, naughty neighbors, family secrets-- terrible, terrible, terrible stuff.
It was thematically oriented to horny housewives, naughty neighbors, family secrets-- terrible, terrible, terrible stuff. And so it was my job all day long to modernize it, and also find the pictures that go with it. And so after about-- which this is a really terrible job back then.
is dead. As societies modernize , they secularize necessarily, right? Well, a lot of those sociologists, in light of you know, recent movements and trends and demographics, say that they made
I think that the beer making in Thailand is very modernized and there's a lot of controls and stuff like that.
onward cuz we can now get to a much more modernized policy structure. We will have millions of high-paying jobs
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, Following up on that, we see reluctance to modernize our food as well.
So right now, he's working hard to modernize the 130 year old deli system and processes while continuing to maintain the old-world feel and taste
But, even if the bike did not independently modernize American medicine, its unprecedented impact on fitness, and the clash this revealed between what doctors said and what experience showed,
One question is, Craiglist has notoriously not modernized its design in UX.
The only answer I have is to be driven in collaboration with governments because government interests would be to make sure these technologies are becoming distributed because government need to figure out, how will we modernize an economic model that is now becoming obsolete? Technology like AI or anything related to AI has the potential to create jobs we don't have.
Other than taxes that the company pays, there's no jobs in the same proportion that you actually are displacing. So that's why the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a blessing if you embrace it because you modernize the way you think. It's a curse if you don't embrace it because the level of gap that you're going to have in the future will become unsurmountable.
to build their digital membership and to really turn, kind of modernize I think, what membership in a social movement and an organization can look like.
But really, the government-- when it's trying to modernize -- has to look at more traditional routes.
And then from the 1980s until now, China suddenly went through this radical change to modernize itself.
Sure. And there are some really important regional decisions being made about how to modernize Caltrain and then how to fund it.
You know? Andrew Stanton: There’s this weird assumption that you have to modernize , contemporize, or bring, I mean I made a movie about fish that talk underwater.
to it, kind of feels like it's been modernized and turned into the same style everywhere. And all of those
which is really, really cool-- just imagined as if it were kind of modernized for today.
needs to get back its strength, its power, its sovereignty in terms of everything from politics to art to economics. And Japan, yes, becoming the most modernized nation of East Asia, as I've mentioned before, but also becoming its most powerful imperial power. And in the context of that, slowly but surely occupying more and more of Asia's territory-- Taiwan in 1895, Manchuria in 1905, Korea 1910.
original book and give them an absurd scope you know to uh to make them you know in a way a little more modernized
back or are there; do we need something much more modernized ?
And I can imagine, when you have a vision, which is to modernize Bahrain food, a lot of it comes from memories
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, So my cooking, I tried modernizing a little bit in one of my books, "Modern Mezze." But I didn't modernize that much.
Do I see this happening? I see this in small country that have not a lot of historical heritage, this desire to modernize in the future, but in places like the US, I'm not talking about the technology companies in the Valley, but instead as a country.
How do you find it difficult, like you mentioned, as there's so much pressure to kind of modernize every classical art form, whether it's music,
You can probably visualize him with his hat and his cigar. In the '50,s mid-50s, British Rail said, right, we're going to modernize .
Now there's differences. On the north side and the south side, but we gotta modernize it. So the same type of stations, the same type of capacity. On the south side, it's
once this up on YouTube I think that's shot. I'll have to come up with a new one. Alright, the big China question in 1978, in China, and I think also very much around the world was, will China be able to modernize ? After the destruction of the great leap forward that lead to a massive famine. After the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Deng Xiaoping was in charge, and he was saying his watch word was the four modernizations. A lot of
through every line of the budget, like I have, all 1200 pages and overhaul and modernize the entire state of California. It hasn't been done.
So the story is unfolding with a series of solos performed by each individual queen in which they tell their own story in a modernized take
There's something about modernizing, again, whatever that means, that means you're going to see a little bit less of what is being modernized .