Video online for Tom's appearance at Sandia. From an email:
Thomas Barnett's Sandia lecture
Thomas Barnett, author of The Pentagon's New Map: A Future Worth Creating , (see "Strategist's views for Pentagon" in National & International News Briefs, Wednesday SDN) has spoken about his views at Sandia. In a talk titled "Shrinking the Gap — Globalization and US National Security,". He says that since the end of the Cold War, the biggest threats to America and its allies come from underdeveloped, chaotic regions of the Third World. He calls these regions the "Gap," a zone disconnected from the economic and technological advances of globalization.
[Editor's technical note: This is a Windows Media Player file. You neep WMP to watch it, or QuickTime with the new Windows Media plugin, or VLC, or... You get the idea.]
[Editor's technical note: UPDATE: This file streams veeerrrrry sloooooowly over DSL Lite. You may get better results by downloading it first (right click, then 'Download as...' in Windows or use your favorite utility. Mine is Free Download Manager).]
Comments (8)
Tom's pace is perfect and the recording quality is excellent. This is Tom at his business best. Superb presentation.
Posted by critt jarvis | February 13, 2006 1:45 PM
Thanks for making this accessible to a wide audience. I'll record it for my Naval Reserve unit and hope it goes to the entire NRC sooner or later.
Posted by PaulC | February 13, 2006 9:47 PM
Ouch! 300+MB too big to download across DSL at home. I'm lucky enough to be on a T1 during the day, so I had a flawless viewing. Not sure what the solution might be...
Posted by critt jarvis | February 14, 2006 8:04 AM
Critt: you could create a torrent and we could all schedule to download/serve it at the same time ;-)
Posted by Sean Meade | February 14, 2006 9:44 AM
300 MB? better be good. If so, I'll be sending it to my troops in Iraq. Good thing I have plenty of time. I too will steal from my T-1 at work, since DSL would take 2 hours.
Posted by hof1991 | February 14, 2006 9:50 PM
i started the download and went to bed. when i got up: voila! ;-)
Posted by Sean Meade | February 15, 2006 11:23 AM
I'd also like to repeat the fact that it's great these videos are made available to readers. Next to books, I get a lot of information from watching and listening to interviews and lectures from various authors, government officials and so on such as UC Berkly's Conversations with History. I have a number of Tom's radio interviews and his movie from his talk at Johns Hopkins. Keep em coming!
Posted by Chirol | February 19, 2006 1:26 PM
Enjoyed watching your lecture at Sandia Labs. Thanks for making it available on-line.
You might consider editing the tail-end of the video which captures your comment about "needing to use the bathroom". Didn't bother me; we all need to use the bathroom afterall... just seemed humorously out of place enough to mention in the event it was an editing oversight.
Sincerely,
AD
Posted by AD | July 7, 2006 2:33 PM