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  • Hello, my subscribers and hello, others who are watching this.

  • It's David often Filmmaker with another clip from 1979.

  • Now this is a clip than a 1,000,000 1/2 of you have already seen a version off Wall Street people just answering one word.

  • Questions.

  • I've changed it, I've added to it, and I want to tell you a bit about it.

  • So Wall Street at that time.

  • First of all, let's think about what I'm doing.

  • I'm doing the information age, the coming of the information age.

  • Of course, you go to Wall Street, Wall Street, where it's happening Wall Street, where computers are beginning to trade in 1979 when people a savvy you'd think some of them are and some of them want.

  • But the camera on the street is still new.

  • Although I did my first men on the street in 1964 you can see that film on my YouTube channel.

  • Man on the street was still thrilling.

  • The new in 1979 people were not worried about copyright protection about privacy.

  • They really were more curious, and they want to appear on television.

  • I'm interested in how they looked the clothing notice, how well dressed people were and how well they spoke.

  • This wasn't just any part of America.

  • Of course it's Wall Street.

  • But take a listen to the last guy because the last guy answers more than one word.

  • Most people are answering one word because that's what I asked of them.

  • Why don't I ask for one word?

  • Because we were building a montage.

  • It's at the opening of the film where people just got one word.

  • What did they think of the information age?

  • What do they think of computers?

  • What do they think of government?

  • But every once in a while I was smart enough.

  • Thank God to let someone rambled, so you'll hear a bit more.

  • What do you do?

  • Your job?

  • Fixed income salesman.

  • What do you feel about?

  • Good?

  • There's a lot of opportunity there.

  • I think our working class does.

  • It's a lot they can do.

  • They can organize themselves.

  • What is the word phrase?

  • Information society wave organization.

  • Way of determining things with American people are okay.

  • You mean like IBM?

  • I think they have a lot of power.

  • IBM, you think about your job.

  • Sometimes I like it sometimes is exciting.

  • Sometimes it's frustrating.

  • Why is it frustrating?

  • Because I can't do what I want to do.

  • Because who does?

  • I don't know if anybody does bureaucracy.

  • Well, yeah, a little Shake your job.

  • My job.

  • Uh, that's a living privacy.

  • Loneliness.

  • First thing.

  • Okay.

  • Computer programming, computer programming, a computer tape, computer tape, your rock bureaucracy, Washington bureaucracy, Red tape.

  • Wait, We're not married?

  • No.

  • Great.

  • What do you think has power?

  • Do I think has the power in society the rich, right?

  • Why, uh, they have so much influence over with laws regulations have imposed upon us.

  • Do I have a lot of paperwork?

  • Yes.

  • Do I have a lot of work paperwork?

  • Yes, I do.

  • What do you think of the corporation?

  • They're devious.

  • What do you think about the information society together?

  • What do I think about the information side?

  • I think in a lot of respects it's good.

  • It's, um But then, like what we're discussing before privacy lost privacy, there's probably none whatsoever which is an invasion of that.

  • That's not so good either.

  • Good in bed, both of you.

  • What computer?

  • What?

  • You want to know what you wanna do first.

  • That's what we're working on now.

  • Getting it.

  • Operate the bank.

  • One line.

  • Just one word.

  • Putting it up.

  • Bureaucracy.

  • What is bureaucracy wasted?

  • Bureaucracy?

  • Well, there's too much bureaucracy going on today.

  • Your job.

  • But my job is fine.

  • Thank you, Judah.

  • And has done a wonderful job.

  • Corporations Corporations have their own problems today with the inflation and and the unions say work you can answer with.

  • Okay, computer, um numbers.

  • Rock taxes.

  • Okay, Okay.

  • Computer numbers.

  • Bureaucracy, taxes, privacy.

  • Privacy along.

  • It's a communication.

  • Instant communication.

  • Best what?

  • McGovern Government, government.

  • Washington Corporation's business.

  • My job typing.

  • What do you think has the power of today's society mostly Congress computer?

  • Uh, I'm not really have to say this, so you better just cancel it.

  • Privacy.

  • Wonderful rollout.

  • There was a guy with no, not a rolling corporation corporation.

  • Uh, really blank government.

  • A little too big.

  • That's why he'd better get better.

  • Leadership.

  • Yeah.

  • Programming government.

  • Good job.

  • Fun.

  • Government bureaucracy.

  • Thank you.

  • Do you think has government?

  • So this is the one word.

  • Why do I think government has power?

  • All right?

  • It was only because it controls era bureaucracy.

  • That is a bureaucracy controls the country.

  • Confusion.

  • You're too much corporation, corporations, information society, information society.

  • What do you think about me?

  • But I think we're in information oriented societies.

  • I read the paper that that chairman of some company said that we're O.

  • D.

  • On information.

  • You think about it.

  • I think it can't be helped with the telecommunications.

  • That's that's expanding as rapidly as it is.

  • You just can't get away from it for me.

  • Just second, the government.

  • So because there's so much confusion that only the government lawyers can interpret what it is.

  • What?

  • I don't understand that what Nationality Power?

  • Not the people, uh, say the government by our power governing the other day I was just doing good communication.

  • Televisions.

  • Thank you.

  • Tutor IBM.

  • If you could repeat the world computer, you're acting.

  • I didn't hear your accuracy.

  • Uh, politics, instant communication, telephone, government.

  • Do I think the government has more power than corporations?

  • It asked me that question of a few years ago.

  • I would have said no.

  • But today I would say definitely, Yes.

  • How do you feel about your How do I feel about my job?

  • Well paid a little more.

  • I think I'd like it better?

  • How do you feel about being a member of the information?

  • Well, until I walked, how do I feel about being a member of the information society?

  • That's a difficult question, because I didn't know we were in the information society, Uh, by information society.

  • I presume You mean computers and so forth.

  • I think it's terrific.

  • Without it, we wouldn't be.

  • Nearly what we are today gives us the opportunity to grow both, uh, as human beings and scientifically and make advancements we wouldn't have made otherwise.

  • What?

  • What is your job?

  • All right, My job is on a partner and investment advisory firm on Wall Street, and I, uh, managed accounts.

  • The question is, can I get it's much information as I need when I need it.

  • Generally speaking, yes.

  • Most corporations either voluntarily or legally today are required to give just about every little detail of their operations.

  • So the answer would be yes.

  • Are you optimistic about the future?

  • Oh, it's trapped in my optimistic about the future.

  • I jumped ahead of myself there.

  • Yes, extremely so way have some problems that especially with the oil situation that I think will be overcome the problem I think is in Washington.

  • They just you can put a man on the moon, and yet you can't come up with a synthetic fuel.

  • I don't agree with that conclusion.

  • I think we will overcome.

  • It.

  • Is people rally around the old American tradition, Come and do their job.

  • Great slate.

Hello, my subscribers and hello, others who are watching this.

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