1 00:00:03,467 --> 00:00:06,045 America is at the peak of its power. 2 00:00:08,009 --> 00:00:12,923 Innovations and inventions will define a new era of prosperity 3 00:00:13,449 --> 00:00:16,150 i tehnolo�kog �uda. 4 00:00:16,926 --> 00:00:20,209 One invention will change the world, 5 00:00:20,244 --> 00:00:24,043 with the largest communication revolution, ever seen. 6 00:00:24,078 --> 00:00:26,428 And as old threats fade, 7 00:00:26,462 --> 00:00:31,067 a new challenge will test America, like never before. 8 00:00:32,571 --> 00:00:36,288 We are pioneers and trailblazers. 9 00:00:36,322 --> 00:00:39,244 We are fighting for freedom. 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,955 We transform our dreams into reality 11 00:00:44,532 --> 00:00:47,721 our struggle will create a nation. 12 00:00:47,836 --> 00:00:50,444 America: The Story of Us Episode 12: Millennium 13 00:00:53,637 --> 00:00:55,935 in the 1970s, 14 00:00:55,969 --> 00:01:00,081 America is locked in the global conflict with another superpower: 15 00:01:00,117 --> 00:01:02,203 the Soviet Union. 16 00:01:02,238 --> 00:01:04,153 It's the Cold War. 17 00:01:04,188 --> 00:01:09,840 Communism and capitalism clash in the ideological struggle for supremacy. 18 00:01:09,876 --> 00:01:13,428 For many, it is a time of fear and insecurity. 19 00:01:13,429 --> 00:01:15,202 Nuclear nightmares. 20 00:01:15,236 --> 00:01:17,269 By the end of the Cold War, 21 00:01:17,303 --> 00:01:21,115 rival countries gathered higher explosive power, 22 00:01:21,149 --> 00:01:24,012 for more than a million Hiroshima. 23 00:01:24,047 --> 00:01:27,354 But the Cold War has more one battlefield. 24 00:01:28,895 --> 00:01:31,266 Conquest of space. 25 00:01:31,301 --> 00:01:36,102 And when America won, sending the first man to the moon, 26 00:01:36,137 --> 00:01:40,396 technology, which will define a new era is becoming... 27 00:01:40,890 --> 00:01:42,417 television. 28 00:01:42,452 --> 00:01:47,981 185 million Americans are united in front of their TV sets. 29 00:01:48,017 --> 00:01:50,668 Look back at those pictures now, 30 00:01:50,703 --> 00:01:52,895 we admired the clarity of the image. 31 00:01:52,930 --> 00:01:55,884 It was live from the moon, after all. 32 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,742 It was the pinnacle of technology and we admired it. 33 00:02:01,818 --> 00:02:07,345 In 1940, there were only a few of TV sets throughout the country. 34 00:02:08,414 --> 00:02:12,497 By 1970, there were over 60 million. 35 00:02:12,531 --> 00:02:17,351 TV will play a decisive role in shaping the new era. 36 00:02:17,386 --> 00:02:22,062 America has always tried adopt new technologies. 37 00:02:22,098 --> 00:02:25,542 Television, as we know it today, 38 00:02:25,577 --> 00:02:29,977 I mean, it was considered, think about that crazy idea. We could send moving pictures, 39 00:02:30,012 --> 00:02:32,493 to any place in United States. 40 00:02:38,815 --> 00:02:43,719 But America was built on technological novelties and inventions, 41 00:02:45,058 --> 00:02:47,992 of steamboats and revolvers, 42 00:02:48,028 --> 00:02:50,892 to a car for everyone. 43 00:02:56,645 --> 00:03:00,154 Technology has conquered the whole continent. 44 00:03:06,714 --> 00:03:09,157 But throughout history this country, 45 00:03:09,192 --> 00:03:13,878 communication technology is played a decisive role. 46 00:03:14,468 --> 00:03:16,736 in 1865 47 00:03:16,771 --> 00:03:21,163 The Telegraph helped its president, Abraham Lincoln, to bring the North victory in the war. 48 00:03:21,893 --> 00:03:26,382 He could virtually practically see and command every battle. 49 00:03:27,895 --> 00:03:31,352 In 1945, David Sarnoff, 50 00:03:31,388 --> 00:03:34,208 Eisenhower's top expert for communications, 51 00:03:34,243 --> 00:03:37,272 helps develop television for America. 52 00:03:37,307 --> 00:03:43,190 By 1950, Sarnoff was creating one of the largest TV networks in the world. 53 00:03:43,225 --> 00:03:46,808 Television can be new form of entertainment, 54 00:03:46,843 --> 00:03:51,817 but it is also the most powerful communication device, which exists. 55 00:03:51,852 --> 00:03:54,974 Sarnoff could recognize the potential of television 56 00:03:55,009 --> 00:03:59,338 and responsibility, which is associated with it. 57 00:04:00,707 --> 00:04:04,263 By 1970, the American public watches more television, 58 00:04:04,264 --> 00:04:06,892 than any nation in the world. 59 00:04:06,927 --> 00:04:11,647 Over 5 hours a day, there is more TV news, for everyone 60 00:04:11,683 --> 00:04:16,004 American residents, than in any country in the world. 61 00:04:16,039 --> 00:04:18,856 Over 70% of the adult population, 62 00:04:18,890 --> 00:04:21,907 he watches the TV news every night. 63 00:04:21,942 --> 00:04:25,510 And when they were broadcast live pictures of the moon landing, 64 00:04:25,545 --> 00:04:28,242 it was not only a technological success, 65 00:04:28,276 --> 00:04:31,547 it was a symbolic victory in the Cold War. 66 00:04:31,581 --> 00:04:35,615 But there is also a real war, closer American lives. 67 00:04:37,347 --> 00:04:38,896 Vietnam. 68 00:04:38,931 --> 00:04:42,241 One bitter conflict on Southeast Asia. 69 00:04:42,276 --> 00:04:46,074 America fears that it will communism swept the region 70 00:04:46,109 --> 00:04:48,859 and wants to stop its influence. 71 00:04:49,769 --> 00:04:52,866 But the US military and all its technology, 72 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:56,470 encounters strong resistance from certain people guerrilla movements. 73 00:04:56,505 --> 00:04:58,855 And it was dragged into the war 74 00:04:58,890 --> 00:05:02,465 hundreds of thousands of scholars young Americans. 75 00:05:03,231 --> 00:05:06,855 We asked for so much our 18 year olds, 76 00:05:06,890 --> 00:05:10,801 to go to a foreign country, in the middle of the jungle 77 00:05:10,835 --> 00:05:15,884 and to fight against the guerrillas, who are their homes, on their own land 78 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,279 and which is not thrilled with the invasion. 79 00:05:20,405 --> 00:05:25,329 The generation that fought in the the Vietnam War is the baby boom generation, 80 00:05:25,363 --> 00:05:28,693 numerically the largest American generation of all time. 81 00:05:28,728 --> 00:05:33,605 Over 50 million new Americans, born in the 15 post-war years. 82 00:05:36,044 --> 00:05:41,241 This huge generation is different of all Americans, who came before, 83 00:05:41,277 --> 00:05:44,779 and their influence and attitude towards society, 84 00:05:44,813 --> 00:05:47,970 It will change the face of America. 85 00:05:48,581 --> 00:05:51,377 The 1960s were inevitable. 86 00:05:51,968 --> 00:05:54,489 The greatest generation has returned home 87 00:05:54,490 --> 00:05:57,540 with a fixed idea about it What life should be 88 00:05:57,574 --> 00:06:00,979 and they were busy doing it again 89 00:06:01,014 --> 00:06:05,799 they live in a traditional way, 90 00:06:05,834 --> 00:06:11,481 so they didn't pay attention change the feelings of your children. 91 00:06:11,517 --> 00:06:17,386 America is reinventing itself in a way every 10 or 15 years. 92 00:06:20,097 --> 00:06:25,904 And she was always afraid of that reinvasion the generation that came before. 93 00:06:25,939 --> 00:06:30,901 June 1969, State of New York. 94 00:06:30,936 --> 00:06:32,692 Woodstock. 95 00:06:32,728 --> 00:06:36,531 Weekend concert for over 100,000 ticketed visitors, 96 00:06:36,565 --> 00:06:40,447 and close to half a million came visitors of the baby boom generation. 97 00:06:40,482 --> 00:06:42,936 Over a million were waiting in front of the entrance. 98 00:06:42,971 --> 00:06:46,091 That was the greatest musical festival ever held in the world 99 00:06:46,127 --> 00:06:48,649 and became a sign of the baby boom generations, 100 00:06:48,684 --> 00:06:53,665 a signal for America, that it is coming generation change. 101 00:06:53,699 --> 00:06:56,028 Coming from a social culture, 102 00:06:56,063 --> 00:06:58,629 which was quite scantily clad and made up, 103 00:06:58,665 --> 00:07:01,197 until one, which was suddenly... 104 00:07:01,232 --> 00:07:06,693 we had Woodstock, we had hippies. We had free love. 105 00:07:06,727 --> 00:07:09,966 The baby boomers had a big impact 106 00:07:10,001 --> 00:07:13,983 on how we see the world and how we see society. 107 00:07:15,612 --> 00:07:19,879 But baby boomers didn't rebel against values for which their parents advocated. 108 00:07:19,915 --> 00:07:22,696 People started to take to the streets 109 00:07:22,731 --> 00:07:27,417 and directly influence foreign policy. 110 00:07:27,452 --> 00:07:30,904 Baby boomers wanted an end to the Vietnam War 111 00:07:30,939 --> 00:07:33,868 and they protested in the streets. 112 00:07:33,904 --> 00:07:38,579 They were ready to plead for what they believe in, 113 00:07:38,614 --> 00:07:45,183 in mass demonstrations of rebellion, It's very American. 114 00:07:46,012 --> 00:07:47,549 In the Vietnam War 115 00:07:47,584 --> 00:07:52,939 people were not willing to die, for something they don't believe in. 116 00:07:56,339 --> 00:07:59,608 The protest is deeply rooted in the American character. 117 00:07:59,644 --> 00:08:04,040 Pilgrims against the old world and religious persecution. 118 00:08:07,062 --> 00:08:11,776 Colonies against the British and their taxes. 119 00:08:11,810 --> 00:08:16,378 Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman against slavery. 120 00:08:19,690 --> 00:08:21,490 in the 1970s, 121 00:08:21,525 --> 00:08:25,629 there were thousands of protests against the Vietnam War. 122 00:08:25,663 --> 00:08:29,160 Kent State University, Ohio. 123 00:08:29,878 --> 00:08:32,552 The National Guard was called out to control 124 00:08:32,553 --> 00:08:34,605 500 students who protested. 125 00:08:37,618 --> 00:08:40,170 Television is also present. 126 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:48,169 Four students were killed. 127 00:08:49,797 --> 00:08:52,913 I think it is many Americans were driven home, 128 00:08:52,914 --> 00:08:54,489 to see it on their television, 129 00:08:54,524 --> 00:08:58,619 those passionate masses of people, 130 00:08:58,653 --> 00:09:00,024 those pictures. You know. 131 00:09:00,058 --> 00:09:03,604 America is a very visual country. 132 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:08,829 The Vietnam War is the first war shown on television, 133 00:09:08,865 --> 00:09:13,055 so the fighting and the number of victims were events for daily news. 134 00:09:13,089 --> 00:09:18,680 Television brought reality war into people's homes. 135 00:09:18,715 --> 00:09:21,551 As it was only 100 years ago, a Civil War photographer 136 00:09:21,586 --> 00:09:23,855 discovered the true hour of war, 137 00:09:23,890 --> 00:09:28,661 now the TV news was showing it to the nation. 138 00:09:28,695 --> 00:09:32,850 We have already lost over 50,000 soldiers, and many more were wounded. 139 00:09:32,886 --> 00:09:36,955 I think most Americans are realized that Vietnam was a hopeless case. 140 00:09:39,540 --> 00:09:43,590 Several bombs were dropped, than World War II. 141 00:09:43,626 --> 00:09:46,134 Hundreds of billions of dollars. 142 00:09:46,168 --> 00:09:48,900 But what is the majority Americans remember, 143 00:09:48,901 --> 00:09:51,758 are the pictures they saw on their TV sets. 144 00:09:51,794 --> 00:09:56,027 People watching in Saigon, how they stick to helicopters, 145 00:09:56,028 --> 00:09:58,899 as if we had left them in disgrace. 146 00:09:58,933 --> 00:10:02,934 That is very un-American assumption. 147 00:10:03,849 --> 00:10:09,480 1975, the Vietnam War finally finished. 148 00:10:09,515 --> 00:10:14,157 In many ways it is real was an anti-war movement on the ground. 149 00:10:14,192 --> 00:10:18,567 That shaped our story about Vietnam and some degree 150 00:10:18,602 --> 00:10:21,545 real experience of war. 151 00:10:23,822 --> 00:10:26,230 For many of the baby boom generation, 152 00:10:26,265 --> 00:10:29,964 the protest and rebellion had a broader goal: 153 00:10:30,573 --> 00:10:33,302 Create a completely new way of life. 154 00:10:33,338 --> 00:10:36,901 Rebel against your parents and against society, 155 00:10:36,937 --> 00:10:39,265 create your own utopia, 156 00:10:39,299 --> 00:10:41,532 that was the ideal of the 1960s. 157 00:10:41,567 --> 00:10:47,751 Creating a country where you can live dreams is part of the American character. 158 00:10:48,575 --> 00:10:51,843 That's the reason they are pilgrims came to America. 159 00:10:53,346 --> 00:10:56,587 Why Mormons are pioneers headed west. 160 00:10:58,192 --> 00:11:01,382 Baby boomers are not looking for a new country. 161 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:08,587 They wanted to change America society, to make it fairer, 162 00:11:08,623 --> 00:11:11,336 both in the 60s and in the 70s. 163 00:11:11,371 --> 00:11:14,918 Black rights activists, Native American land rights, 164 00:11:14,952 --> 00:11:18,030 gay rights, ecology and feminism, 165 00:11:18,064 --> 00:11:21,707 are practice on the agenda and on the streets. 166 00:11:22,483 --> 00:11:26,558 Baby boom generation shaped America. 167 00:11:26,593 --> 00:11:30,641 Movement for women's equality at work, 168 00:11:30,676 --> 00:11:33,416 it must have come from that. 169 00:11:33,451 --> 00:11:35,734 That little moment in American history, 170 00:11:35,770 --> 00:11:39,336 he gave a lot of confidence American women. 171 00:11:39,372 --> 00:11:40,612 Freedom is freedom. 172 00:11:40,647 --> 00:11:43,294 All men and women are created equal. 173 00:11:43,330 --> 00:11:48,024 I was not informed about the Watergate affair, 174 00:11:48,058 --> 00:11:54,344 I did not participate in it, nor I had knowledge of the cover-up. 175 00:11:56,826 --> 00:12:03,174 In 1974, President Nixon is up to his neck in the Watergate affair, 176 00:12:03,209 --> 00:12:05,972 eavesdropping on his political rivals and breaking into their headquarters. 177 00:12:06,008 --> 00:12:08,737 He is accused of covering up crimes. 178 00:12:08,771 --> 00:12:11,683 Congress begins the process for removal, 179 00:12:11,684 --> 00:12:13,914 which is broadcast live on television. 180 00:12:13,948 --> 00:12:16,786 Holders of the highest state functions 181 00:12:16,821 --> 00:12:20,371 are subjected to sterilization million viewers. 182 00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:25,671 The Nixon administration is became a TV hit and lost. 183 00:12:26,234 --> 00:12:30,290 There have been scandals before in American history, 184 00:12:30,324 --> 00:12:36,315 but they didn't take place on television, like the Watergate affair. 185 00:12:36,350 --> 00:12:39,565 What the Watergate Affair Revealed 186 00:12:39,601 --> 00:12:45,541 is the level of internal corruption, level of deception 187 00:12:45,576 --> 00:12:49,217 and real violations of American democracy. 188 00:12:49,252 --> 00:12:52,834 Not even critics of the American government until then 189 00:12:52,870 --> 00:12:54,823 they just couldn't imagine. 190 00:12:54,857 --> 00:12:57,581 It is for many Americans was the last nail in the coffin. 191 00:12:57,616 --> 00:13:02,320 Many people have lost their confidence into his own society. 192 00:13:02,355 --> 00:13:05,856 I will give it tomorrow at noon resignation from the position of president. 193 00:13:05,891 --> 00:13:08,851 The first American president, who resigned from his position. 194 00:13:08,886 --> 00:13:13,981 85% watched his speech of all American households. 195 00:13:14,017 --> 00:13:18,996 Freedom of the press and television showed her true strength. 196 00:13:19,031 --> 00:13:21,273 I mean, the Watergate affair showed 197 00:13:21,308 --> 00:13:25,654 that we need the freedom of �tampa, because there are some things 198 00:13:25,690 --> 00:13:29,220 which would never be known without freedom of press. 199 00:13:30,311 --> 00:13:36,284 While television shows the fall of one president, and America falls into crisis, 200 00:13:36,318 --> 00:13:39,335 another president will learn use new technologies, 201 00:13:39,371 --> 00:13:43,965 to restore American confidence and ushered her into a new era. 202 00:13:47,932 --> 00:13:53,691 The 1970s and 1980s were difficult time for America. 203 00:13:53,726 --> 00:13:56,002 The oil crisis in the Middle East. 204 00:13:56,037 --> 00:13:58,404 American hostages in Iran. 205 00:13:58,439 --> 00:13:59,545 Research shows 206 00:13:59,547 --> 00:14:03,066 that only 22% of Americans he trusts the government. 207 00:14:03,101 --> 00:14:05,276 Unemployment and inflation, 208 00:14:05,310 --> 00:14:09,022 are at the highest level since the Great Depression. 209 00:14:12,992 --> 00:14:17,204 America has experienced it before economic crisis. 210 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:22,051 In the 1930s, Roosevelt tries pull America out of the Great Depression, 211 00:14:22,085 --> 00:14:25,193 with government investments and new initiatives. 212 00:14:25,228 --> 00:14:29,752 But he also used force new media, radio, 213 00:14:29,787 --> 00:14:32,281 to address the nation directly. 214 00:14:33,088 --> 00:14:37,032 Franklin Roosevelt used this truly mysterious ability, 215 00:14:37,068 --> 00:14:39,255 to speak on the radio, not only 216 00:14:39,290 --> 00:14:42,180 to attract attention, but also affection 217 00:14:42,216 --> 00:14:45,400 millions and millions of their compatriots. 218 00:14:45,435 --> 00:14:49,745 Now, half a century later, a new one the president uses the television 219 00:14:49,781 --> 00:14:52,926 in his attempt to rebuild trust of the nation. 220 00:14:52,962 --> 00:14:57,392 How can we doubt the size of America, 221 00:14:57,426 --> 00:15:00,024 how can we fail to do what is right 222 00:15:00,059 --> 00:15:03,648 and save the last best hope man on earth? 223 00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:08,257 His nickname was "great communicator". 224 00:15:08,292 --> 00:15:10,487 He was able to speak in a way 225 00:15:10,521 --> 00:15:14,337 which many people accepted absolutely American. 226 00:15:14,371 --> 00:15:19,274 Americans wanted to believe that their country is good and strong, 227 00:15:19,310 --> 00:15:23,917 and Reagan spoke to them in a voice, who said "Yes we did". 228 00:15:23,953 --> 00:15:28,165 My dear fellow citizens, I want tonight to talk with you about our future, 229 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,436 about the great historical effort to we give the words 'freedom', 'justice' and 'hope', 230 00:15:32,470 --> 00:15:35,930 new meaning and strength for everyone man and woman in America. 231 00:15:35,966 --> 00:15:39,176 I especially want to talk about taxes. 232 00:15:41,802 --> 00:15:47,295 The 1980s seem like a new era of American financial prosperity. 233 00:15:47,330 --> 00:15:53,249 Low interest rates and simple credit flows, lead to progress. 234 00:15:54,537 --> 00:15:59,527 During the decade, trading at Wall Street breaks records, 235 00:15:59,562 --> 00:16:02,983 Dow Jones index exceeds 200%. 236 00:16:03,018 --> 00:16:08,527 In the 1980s, 100,000 Americans they become millionaires every year. 237 00:16:14,434 --> 00:16:17,470 There was a time of progress before. 238 00:16:17,506 --> 00:16:21,852 Cheap oil leads to cheap gasoline and cars for everyone. 239 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:29,381 Cheap steel leads to construction progress and construction of new cities. 240 00:16:34,178 --> 00:16:39,988 Now, in the 1980s, cheap loans stimulate the growth of consumption. 241 00:16:40,022 --> 00:16:43,340 The credit card is the symbol of the decade. 242 00:16:43,375 --> 00:16:48,690 It was invented in 1958, but it was reserved for the rich, 243 00:16:48,691 --> 00:16:51,296 now it is democratized. 244 00:16:51,331 --> 00:16:55,103 In 1989, more Americans use a credit card, 245 00:16:55,104 --> 00:16:57,950 rather than participating in the elections. 246 00:16:57,984 --> 00:17:02,814 In the 1980s, the debt was on the cards increases by a factor of five years. 247 00:17:02,850 --> 00:17:06,170 By the end of the decade, Americans spent 248 00:17:06,205 --> 00:17:11,915 close to 250 billion dollars a year, with your credit cards. 249 00:17:11,950 --> 00:17:15,062 During the 1980s, no shopping centers 250 00:17:15,096 --> 00:17:17,556 exceeds the number of secondary schools. 251 00:17:17,591 --> 00:17:21,220 Fast food stores increase by 78%. 252 00:17:21,255 --> 00:17:24,181 Food consumption in restaurants is doubled, 253 00:17:24,182 --> 00:17:28,613 to 250 billion dollars every year. 254 00:17:28,648 --> 00:17:30,789 During that decade we will probably become 255 00:17:30,823 --> 00:17:33,191 more materialistic, than ever before. 256 00:17:33,225 --> 00:17:35,893 Consumption grew rapidly. 257 00:17:37,048 --> 00:17:40,263 But what he spends is real It's technology, 258 00:17:40,297 --> 00:17:45,004 the latest kitchen appliances, the latest entertainment technology. 259 00:17:45,038 --> 00:17:48,970 In 1980, there is barely two million VCRs, 260 00:17:49,005 --> 00:17:51,920 and in 1990, over 63 million. 261 00:17:51,955 --> 00:17:54,210 From several thousand mobile phones, 262 00:17:54,244 --> 00:17:57,997 by the end of the 1980s, there are more of five million. 263 00:17:58,033 --> 00:18:02,975 Your first pocket knife, your first bicycle, your first car, 264 00:18:03,011 --> 00:18:06,443 today, you know, is your first mobile phone phone, your first laptop. 265 00:18:06,477 --> 00:18:10,587 These are all things to acquire control over our world, 266 00:18:10,623 --> 00:18:12,618 if you are able live a better life, 267 00:18:12,653 --> 00:18:16,486 because you have a better tool and possibly are to use it. 268 00:18:16,522 --> 00:18:19,868 It is something that is deep rooted in the American psyche. 269 00:18:20,134 --> 00:18:24,144 But many of these consumers technological advances, 270 00:18:24,180 --> 00:18:30,258 are developed directly from the largest spending for the joy of all: the space race. 271 00:18:30,293 --> 00:18:34,541 Cold war with the Soviet Union he is still strong 272 00:18:34,576 --> 00:18:39,098 and it is conducted all over the world and outside of it. 273 00:18:39,133 --> 00:18:44,045 By the end of the Cold War, America had invested 7 trillion dollars in the space program 274 00:18:44,079 --> 00:18:47,668 in order to stay ahead of its own communist rival. 275 00:18:47,704 --> 00:18:53,633 The result is one of the most sophisticated and the funniest spacecraft ever built: 276 00:18:53,669 --> 00:18:55,617 Space shuttle. 277 00:18:55,653 --> 00:18:58,069 The space shuttle is a wonderful idea. 278 00:18:58,103 --> 00:19:01,551 It was an elegant ship, more effective and economical, 279 00:19:01,586 --> 00:19:05,082 because he could fly off the Earth and be reused. 280 00:19:05,693 --> 00:19:09,028 The Shuttle had a direct impact to the American consumer boom. 281 00:19:09,063 --> 00:19:13,766 One of his primary function is the transportation of communication satellites, 282 00:19:13,801 --> 00:19:17,019 it helps the expansion of all the bigger ones American appetites 283 00:19:17,053 --> 00:19:22,324 for entertainment, communications, phones and GPS. 284 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,709 Space shuttle technology, finds use on Earth as well. 285 00:19:26,744 --> 00:19:29,424 Mobile phones, water filtration, 286 00:19:29,425 --> 00:19:33,243 aircraft landing, firefighting equipment, 287 00:19:34,152 --> 00:19:39,292 battery devices, medical technique and equipment for skiers. 288 00:19:40,595 --> 00:19:43,845 Everything benefits from the shuttle program. 289 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:48,477 For many, the shuttle is a symbol American stories. 290 00:19:48,512 --> 00:19:52,498 It's like one of those self-fulfilling prophecies. 291 00:19:52,533 --> 00:19:57,666 You know, we work for a better future and we will have a better future. 292 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:00,137 Talking about the border of the spirit, 293 00:20:00,171 --> 00:20:02,278 it is not a matter of success or failure. 294 00:20:02,313 --> 00:20:07,272 It's just continuous growth, and that's really inspiring. 295 00:20:14,578 --> 00:20:16,584 Confirm the Challenger maneuver. 296 00:20:18,901 --> 00:20:22,435 The Shuttle is a new era for America. 297 00:20:22,471 --> 00:20:26,876 Space age technology is force for the progress of the country. 298 00:20:28,780 --> 00:20:31,932 The nation was built on innovation. 299 00:20:31,967 --> 00:20:36,908 New technology creates progress, wealth, expansion. 300 00:20:37,998 --> 00:20:42,814 As axes of improvement, trees can be deleted at a higher rate, 301 00:20:46,861 --> 00:20:50,331 new military technology wins wars, 302 00:20:53,780 --> 00:20:55,734 creates nations. 303 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,763 Throughout our history, each of these technologies 304 00:20:59,797 --> 00:21:03,666 was a transformative way, that changed economies, 305 00:21:03,702 --> 00:21:07,018 that changed lives, which changed the forms of settlement. 306 00:21:12,155 --> 00:21:15,697 This is what entrepreneurs need, like Andrew Carnegie. 307 00:21:15,733 --> 00:21:18,512 He used new technologies steel production 308 00:21:18,547 --> 00:21:22,830 and produced large quantities raw material 309 00:21:22,865 --> 00:21:25,535 for the construction of large American cities. 310 00:21:26,531 --> 00:21:29,762 And engineering geniuses like Mulholland. 311 00:21:29,798 --> 00:21:35,692 Its 320 km aqueduct in LA, enabled the rapid growth of the city. 312 00:21:38,107 --> 00:21:41,571 But progress often takes the human price. 313 00:21:41,605 --> 00:21:44,002 in 1825 314 00:21:44,037 --> 00:21:47,820 The construction of the Erie Canal, which connects Great Lakes with New York, 315 00:21:47,855 --> 00:21:50,325 takes close to 1,000 lives. 316 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,374 in 1865 317 00:21:52,409 --> 00:21:57,249 transcontinental railroad, almost 2,000 lives. 318 00:22:04,312 --> 00:22:08,974 At the turn of the century, two out of five men 319 00:22:09,010 --> 00:22:14,128 dies or is injured during construction American new cities. 320 00:22:14,505 --> 00:22:17,891 Three, two, one. 321 00:22:17,927 --> 00:22:19,968 Pick it up. 322 00:22:20,003 --> 00:22:25,675 Now the space shuttle is the highlight the new era of American technology. 323 00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:29,640 1986 was the most fruitful year. 324 00:22:30,841 --> 00:22:33,522 The Challenger shuttle crew has been selected 325 00:22:33,558 --> 00:22:36,543 to represent the average of modern America. 326 00:22:36,578 --> 00:22:40,416 Different races, origins, professions 327 00:22:40,451 --> 00:22:46,730 and the idea that we can always do better send more people 328 00:22:46,764 --> 00:22:51,945 and not just highly specialized astronauts. 329 00:22:51,981 --> 00:22:53,924 Confirm the Challenger maneuver. 330 00:22:56,173 --> 00:23:00,502 The dream of space flight, is available to every American. 331 00:23:00,538 --> 00:23:05,384 Shuttle meant it as safe means of transportation in space. 332 00:23:09,486 --> 00:23:11,055 Challenger, go into high gear. 333 00:23:12,738 --> 00:23:16,283 But on January 28, 1986, 334 00:23:16,318 --> 00:23:19,276 just 73 seconds after take off, 335 00:23:19,311 --> 00:23:23,856 Challenger exploded, live on national television. 336 00:23:26,213 --> 00:23:30,163 You could see that the audience it took a few seconds 337 00:23:30,197 --> 00:23:33,913 to understand what happened, because it was difficult to interpret. 338 00:23:36,858 --> 00:23:39,256 Seven lives were lost. 339 00:23:39,864 --> 00:23:43,684 Suddenly it was like: How could that happen? 340 00:23:43,718 --> 00:23:48,595 I mean, NASA, the United States, we are like the best in the world at this. 341 00:23:48,631 --> 00:23:49,913 What happened? 342 00:23:53,815 --> 00:23:56,320 It was like a punch in the belly of the nation. 343 00:23:56,354 --> 00:23:59,814 So we still make mistakes. 344 00:23:59,849 --> 00:24:02,283 But the biggest test comes from what happened 345 00:24:02,318 --> 00:24:05,044 after that we understood and accepted The fact that we made a mistake. 346 00:24:05,078 --> 00:24:08,601 You sit in a corner and do nothing nothing more, 347 00:24:08,636 --> 00:24:11,808 or you get up and keep working. 348 00:24:15,956 --> 00:24:20,487 Just three years after the Challenger catastrophe, the Cold War is over. 349 00:24:20,522 --> 00:24:22,510 Likewise in the space race. 350 00:24:22,546 --> 00:24:26,551 While a generation dreamed your future in space, 351 00:24:26,585 --> 00:24:32,043 next she dreamed of new ones borders: Cyberspace. 352 00:24:36,086 --> 00:24:40,833 Individuals, entrepreneurial ideas, they had the craziest ideas. 353 00:24:40,868 --> 00:24:42,820 And that's really the American spirit. 354 00:24:42,854 --> 00:24:49,742 And that's the way to understand it that's out there. 355 00:24:50,338 --> 00:24:53,827 In 1873, on his kitchen table, 356 00:24:53,862 --> 00:24:56,769 a farmer from Illinois, named Joseph Glidden, 357 00:24:56,803 --> 00:25:01,883 he invented something that made a difference the face of America: a prickly face. 358 00:25:01,919 --> 00:25:06,442 During 10 years, 800,000 odometer of prickly water, 359 00:25:06,477 --> 00:25:09,438 it surrounded 4 million km2 lot, in the midwest, 360 00:25:09,474 --> 00:25:14,152 which becomes a bread basket America. 361 00:25:19,333 --> 00:25:21,752 1879 362 00:25:21,786 --> 00:25:24,968 Thomas Edison invented electric light bulb. 363 00:25:25,003 --> 00:25:29,330 This will enable 1000 of his further patents. 364 00:25:29,366 --> 00:25:32,938 But he also creates the first commercial electrical network. 365 00:25:32,974 --> 00:25:37,036 Within 2 years, he is built over 5000 power plants. 366 00:25:37,070 --> 00:25:42,363 Within five years, he creates further ones 367 00:25:42,398 --> 00:25:46,453 127,000. The nation wins electricity and light. 368 00:25:47,165 --> 00:25:48,851 We are a nation of entrepreneurs. 369 00:25:48,885 --> 00:25:52,162 We have that incredible entrepreneurial spirit. 370 00:25:53,539 --> 00:25:58,164 But an American invention from the 19 century introduces the idea, 371 00:25:58,199 --> 00:26:01,891 which will shape the 21st century of our world. 372 00:26:01,927 --> 00:26:08,099 In 1850, the Lowell Cotton Mills, automate production with a punched card. 373 00:26:08,134 --> 00:26:13,263 The holes in the card provide instructions machine, which color should be used. 374 00:26:13,298 --> 00:26:16,539 One color comes, one the color goes away. 375 00:26:16,574 --> 00:26:18,487 It's binary code 376 00:26:18,522 --> 00:26:23,146 and the key to future computing revolutions. 377 00:26:26,463 --> 00:26:30,690 But the first computers were not revolutionary. 378 00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:36,558 In the 1940s, one computer the power of a regular PC today, 379 00:26:36,593 --> 00:26:39,277 could be the size Greyhound bus 380 00:26:39,313 --> 00:26:43,182 and would need the same amount of energy like a small town. 381 00:26:43,216 --> 00:26:46,961 Many people thought it would be only a few computers sold. 382 00:26:46,997 --> 00:26:50,229 But then they start to reveal its real power. 383 00:26:52,422 --> 00:26:55,973 In the 1960s, computers used in universities, 384 00:26:56,008 --> 00:26:59,850 in order to perform until now unimaginable calculations. 385 00:26:59,885 --> 00:27:02,903 And from the 1970s onwards, 386 00:27:02,938 --> 00:27:07,314 companies use them for replacement thousands of accounting officers. 387 00:27:07,349 --> 00:27:12,076 The Cold War helps development computer fund, 388 00:27:12,111 --> 00:27:17,187 It makes companies like IBM, become massive corporations. 389 00:27:18,724 --> 00:27:21,654 But it's not just corporations or rule you 390 00:27:21,689 --> 00:27:24,505 which create the following the computer revolution. 391 00:27:24,541 --> 00:27:26,845 in 1976 392 00:27:26,881 --> 00:27:29,323 One garage in Northern California. 393 00:27:29,358 --> 00:27:34,242 Two computer hobbyists, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, 394 00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:38,122 created by the world's first practical personal computer. 395 00:27:38,157 --> 00:27:43,029 The original kind of pioneer digital revolution. 396 00:27:43,064 --> 00:27:45,729 for myself, 397 00:27:45,764 --> 00:27:46,956 for ordinary people like them. 398 00:27:46,991 --> 00:27:49,478 They were not particularly rich. 399 00:27:49,512 --> 00:27:53,200 They did not work for large organizations. They were simple amateurs. 400 00:27:55,014 --> 00:27:58,726 They are coming to the market soon their own computers. 401 00:27:58,762 --> 00:28:02,890 When IBM launched its PC, the game begins. 402 00:28:02,925 --> 00:28:05,717 Computers change rapidly. 403 00:28:05,751 --> 00:28:10,518 With the arrival of mice and with the arrival of images on the screen. 404 00:28:10,554 --> 00:28:16,258 It's a kind of innovation, where new ideas are really coming. 405 00:28:17,263 --> 00:28:21,278 Apple II from 1980, had more computing power, 406 00:28:21,314 --> 00:28:25,349 than it was used in Apollo the moon landing program. 407 00:28:27,262 --> 00:28:31,699 Personal computers are becoming more and more powerful, more and more popular. 408 00:28:31,733 --> 00:28:35,786 In 1980, it was just 300,000 PCs. 409 00:28:35,820 --> 00:28:40,002 In 1990, there are more of 67 million. 410 00:28:40,038 --> 00:28:45,266 That year, only Microsoft sells computers worth a billion dollars. 411 00:28:49,223 --> 00:28:53,204 But the true power of computers It is yet to be realized. 412 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,877 Only when they start communicating with each other, 413 00:28:55,912 --> 00:28:59,385 computer revolution �e be complete. 414 00:29:00,871 --> 00:29:05,595 In 1969, it begins communication revolution. 415 00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:10,457 Four computers start the exchange data by phone line. 416 00:29:11,616 --> 00:29:14,237 It is the birth of the Internet. 417 00:29:15,719 --> 00:29:18,834 In a sense, it's built in in the DNA of our country, 418 00:29:18,869 --> 00:29:22,638 test each new species communication technologies, 419 00:29:22,674 --> 00:29:29,030 because it is important for our ancestors, in building this great nation. 420 00:29:29,967 --> 00:29:34,634 By the middle of the 19th century, they had decreased are the distances of this great continent, 421 00:29:34,670 --> 00:29:38,197 when the horses and carts gave way railway station. 422 00:29:41,826 --> 00:29:47,416 Together with the railway, it is developing the telegraph, the internet of that era. 423 00:29:47,451 --> 00:29:51,603 Messages that once traveled for days, or even months to their destination, 424 00:29:51,638 --> 00:29:56,056 now they travel a second, by pressing a button. 425 00:29:58,397 --> 00:30:01,219 A young railway official, 426 00:30:01,254 --> 00:30:03,760 he has a vision of both the telegraph and the railway 427 00:30:03,795 --> 00:30:07,008 can revolutionize way of doing business. 428 00:30:07,043 --> 00:30:09,184 1900, Sears catalog 429 00:30:09,185 --> 00:30:13,188 transforms how Americans they buy and sell. 430 00:30:14,910 --> 00:30:16,558 A century later, 431 00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:21,067 the internet is leading the revolution one step further. 432 00:30:21,102 --> 00:30:24,268 By 2005, almost 200 million households 433 00:30:24,269 --> 00:30:27,678 has computers and internet access, 434 00:30:27,714 --> 00:30:33,355 with over five billion dollars goods sold online in 2009. 435 00:30:33,390 --> 00:30:40,789 You realize that this is the power of connection was unstoppable 436 00:30:40,823 --> 00:30:47,299 overwhelming, incredible and sometimes frightening. 437 00:30:47,659 --> 00:30:50,941 Since the first e-mail, sent in 1969, 438 00:30:50,976 --> 00:30:56,325 by 2009, 90 billion e-mails is sent worldwide, 439 00:30:56,326 --> 00:30:59,510 247 billion every day. 440 00:31:00,017 --> 00:31:04,109 That spirit of freedom, openness, 441 00:31:04,145 --> 00:31:07,161 it was in fact a key part of the Internet 442 00:31:07,195 --> 00:31:09,957 and in a way the basic idea that everyone should be 443 00:31:09,992 --> 00:31:13,590 if possible equally participate in this new medium. 444 00:31:13,625 --> 00:31:16,595 It's a very American idea. 445 00:31:16,631 --> 00:31:19,916 That idea that everyone should have access to knowledge. 446 00:31:20,514 --> 00:31:22,811 And in the 1990s, California, 447 00:31:22,812 --> 00:31:26,770 through the Internet he experiences his second "gold rush". 448 00:31:27,521 --> 00:31:33,171 Gold rush mentality still exists 100 years later, 449 00:31:33,205 --> 00:31:34,715 when he started working in Silicon Valley. 450 00:31:34,750 --> 00:31:39,620 And the secret of Silicon Valley was that people were ready to take a huge risk. 451 00:31:40,674 --> 00:31:45,501 In 10 years, 30,000 new high tech the company started working. 452 00:31:45,537 --> 00:31:50,331 Silicon Valley has opened almost million new jobs in the 1990s. 453 00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:56,080 Venture capitalists invest 121 billion dollars 454 00:31:56,081 --> 00:31:59,677 in high-tech companies in 1998. 455 00:31:59,712 --> 00:32:03,464 But not every internet will entrepreneur become rich. 456 00:32:04,104 --> 00:32:06,907 In Silicon Valley culture, is perfectly fine 457 00:32:06,941 --> 00:32:09,002 if you have a great idea, so do you you try and still fail. 458 00:32:09,038 --> 00:32:11,084 People accept it, "hey, you know 459 00:32:11,118 --> 00:32:13,142 they don't do everything". 460 00:32:13,177 --> 00:32:16,766 But if it's a good job, you will probably get a second chance. 461 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,052 In March 2000, the dotcom bubble burst. 462 00:32:20,086 --> 00:32:22,334 The world has been transformed. 463 00:32:22,368 --> 00:32:25,140 Until people made so much money as they thought they would earn, 464 00:32:25,176 --> 00:32:29,682 everyone was online. And the country is was connected faster by this new technology, 465 00:32:29,717 --> 00:32:33,672 much faster than it would be if there was no big boom. 466 00:32:33,708 --> 00:32:36,493 So it's like a gold rush was in California, 467 00:32:36,528 --> 00:32:39,949 I think the internet is booming today made only a few profiteers, 468 00:32:39,984 --> 00:32:44,442 but they connected the whole country, in a truly transformative way. 469 00:32:44,901 --> 00:32:48,342 But also informative old age comes to the highway, 470 00:32:48,376 --> 00:32:53,204 America awakens a new i frightening friend. 471 00:33:07,804 --> 00:33:12,099 He came quite literally and metaphorically out of the blue. 472 00:33:12,134 --> 00:33:14,229 No one saw this coming. 473 00:33:15,513 --> 00:33:19,295 It was the blackest day in America history. No one expected that. 474 00:33:19,833 --> 00:33:25,440 Someone said, "General, you should turn on the television". I did it 475 00:33:25,475 --> 00:33:28,394 and watched along with the whole world 476 00:33:28,395 --> 00:33:32,819 how another plane hits another tower. 477 00:33:35,944 --> 00:33:41,437 On the morning of September 11, 2001 two passenger planes, 478 00:33:41,472 --> 00:33:44,251 who were kidnapped by terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda, 479 00:33:44,286 --> 00:33:48,028 they hit the towers of the World shopping center in New York. 480 00:33:49,010 --> 00:33:52,794 When did it first happen and when 481 00:33:52,829 --> 00:33:55,546 I realized how bad it was, 482 00:33:55,580 --> 00:33:59,325 I realized it was him the worst attack in our history. 483 00:34:02,087 --> 00:34:07,920 I remember thinking "Well, the world will change". 484 00:34:07,954 --> 00:34:10,876 "I'm not sure how," 485 00:34:10,877 --> 00:34:14,560 "but the world will change". 486 00:34:18,286 --> 00:34:24,002 34 minutes later, a third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, 487 00:34:24,037 --> 00:34:25,628 hits the Pentagon. 488 00:34:27,487 --> 00:34:30,418 At 10:03, the fourth plane, 489 00:34:30,454 --> 00:34:33,541 it is believed that he was going towards the Capitol or the White House, 490 00:34:33,575 --> 00:34:35,935 crashed near Shanksville, in Pennsylvania. 491 00:34:35,970 --> 00:34:39,806 The passengers tried to prevent it kidnappers. 492 00:34:40,737 --> 00:34:42,975 We were amazed, we were frozen. 493 00:34:43,010 --> 00:34:45,369 And I know that in our small community, 494 00:34:45,370 --> 00:34:48,094 the same feeling of helplessness and helplessness, 495 00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:52,038 replicated across the United States, from coast to coast. 496 00:34:53,078 --> 00:34:56,356 We watched as the fire broke out. 497 00:34:56,390 --> 00:34:58,994 It was a terrible event. 498 00:34:59,029 --> 00:35:02,171 But almost no one, for sure nobody around me 499 00:35:02,206 --> 00:35:07,891 he had no idea that integrity both towers in danger. 500 00:35:30,155 --> 00:35:36,054 At 10:28, the northern sun also sets the World Trade Center tower. 501 00:35:49,876 --> 00:35:53,509 On the West Side Highway, it stood there are a lot of ambulances, 502 00:35:53,545 --> 00:35:55,113 it's just gone forever. 503 00:35:55,547 --> 00:35:59,182 And no one called the ambulance cars and no one ever did 504 00:36:00,740 --> 00:36:03,193 and after a while he started we understood as 505 00:36:03,194 --> 00:36:05,756 "Oh, my God, there are no survivors". 506 00:36:07,982 --> 00:36:11,615 The 9/11 attack claimed 3,000 lives. 507 00:36:11,650 --> 00:36:15,579 In New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. 508 00:36:23,410 --> 00:36:27,516 People who walked down 6th Avenue, they were completely �oked 509 00:36:27,552 --> 00:36:30,602 and covered with white dust, 510 00:36:30,637 --> 00:36:33,865 because the towers fell right around them. 511 00:36:36,072 --> 00:36:40,518 People call 9/11 Pearl Harbor our generation. 512 00:36:40,554 --> 00:36:44,202 It was an enemy attack, which nobody really saw. 513 00:36:44,236 --> 00:36:46,091 That was devastating. 514 00:36:47,334 --> 00:36:53,786 This is seen as a declaration of war by Al-Qaeda 515 00:36:53,821 --> 00:36:59,471 and transnational extremists to the American state. 516 00:36:59,506 --> 00:37:04,853 But the worst attack on America the soil serves to move the people. 517 00:37:04,889 --> 00:37:08,450 I believe that we are terrorists attacked for two reasons: 518 00:37:08,485 --> 00:37:11,734 To kill a lot of people and to kill our� spirit. 519 00:37:11,769 --> 00:37:14,900 And they killed a lot of people, but they did not kill our spirit. 520 00:37:14,934 --> 00:37:19,978 People have shown themselves to be very brave in the way they handled it 521 00:37:20,012 --> 00:37:22,338 and I think that terrorists never they wouldn't expect. 522 00:37:22,785 --> 00:37:27,324 Faith in freedom and courage, that it can be overcome 523 00:37:27,358 --> 00:37:34,207 ability of terrorists to try destroy the spirit of the land. 524 00:37:34,242 --> 00:37:38,877 The mood in the city after 9/11 was amazing, 525 00:37:38,912 --> 00:37:41,032 because the city was completely silent. 526 00:37:41,066 --> 00:37:43,484 People in the subway, nobody said anything. 527 00:37:43,519 --> 00:37:45,490 People were very accommodating towards each other. 528 00:37:45,526 --> 00:37:47,093 You know, everyone was just moving. 529 00:37:47,128 --> 00:37:48,989 People offered their seats with one conversation. 530 00:37:49,025 --> 00:37:50,423 That was just weird. 531 00:37:50,458 --> 00:37:51,987 It was almost like... 532 00:37:52,802 --> 00:37:56,210 They realized how much they are all were fragile. 533 00:38:01,132 --> 00:38:06,225 Despite what happened and the hour 534 00:38:06,226 --> 00:38:10,010 and incredible loss, it is important how they are 535 00:38:10,054 --> 00:38:12,042 Americans showed, you know, they returned to New York, 536 00:38:12,108 --> 00:38:16,136 America is back in New York and helped New York, 537 00:38:16,163 --> 00:38:19,010 spend money in New York and visited New York. 538 00:38:19,819 --> 00:38:24,313 We were able to do it something so fast 539 00:38:24,402 --> 00:38:28,704 so expeditious in terms of returns 540 00:38:28,740 --> 00:38:32,940 in order, after the tragedy of the World shopping center, when it collapsed. 541 00:38:32,975 --> 00:38:37,182 So quick to do it, it's amazing. 542 00:38:37,218 --> 00:38:39,415 You have the worst attack in the country's history, 543 00:38:39,449 --> 00:38:41,985 on a small cape of the island, and ten years later, 544 00:38:42,019 --> 00:38:44,154 you come back and it's full of people. 545 00:38:44,188 --> 00:38:47,467 More people moved there, than ever before in the history of that city. 546 00:38:47,502 --> 00:38:49,586 Of course, it's not just many families. 547 00:38:49,622 --> 00:38:52,676 Now they played to the right of the place where the planes hit 548 00:38:52,712 --> 00:38:53,977 and they are filled with children. 549 00:38:54,012 --> 00:38:57,676 And so it is a kind of feeling in the sense of "Yes, try it, 550 00:38:57,712 --> 00:39:00,349 ok, you can fly planes in our buildings, but, you know, 551 00:39:00,384 --> 00:39:03,442 we will go back there and build a new life for yourself." 552 00:39:04,249 --> 00:39:08,265 America is rebuilding itself and looking to the future. 553 00:39:12,196 --> 00:39:16,535 400 years ago, adventurers have crossed the ocean 554 00:39:16,571 --> 00:39:20,942 and started an experiment, which It will become the United States of America. 555 00:39:22,666 --> 00:39:25,558 They saved every penny, who had 556 00:39:25,593 --> 00:39:28,757 to be able to pay for the ship and come to the United States, 557 00:39:28,792 --> 00:39:31,642 and then they came to the country in which there was nothing. 558 00:39:31,677 --> 00:39:35,398 They had to do everything themselves, build everything yourself. 559 00:39:35,433 --> 00:39:38,112 America was born out of adversity. 560 00:39:38,147 --> 00:39:42,171 It's like it's in our DNA. 561 00:39:42,691 --> 00:39:48,343 At the beginning of the new millennium, the American experiment is still ongoing. 562 00:39:49,865 --> 00:39:52,190 It is an unfinished state. 563 00:39:52,225 --> 00:39:55,396 We haven't finished and settled everything yet. 564 00:39:55,431 --> 00:39:58,729 There are still new ones spaces, new territories 565 00:39:58,765 --> 00:40:00,635 and we still include new people, 566 00:40:00,671 --> 00:40:05,624 which are still constantly transforming find DNA, or find society. 567 00:40:05,659 --> 00:40:10,592 The last decades of the 20th century close to 10 million new Americans 568 00:40:10,627 --> 00:40:15,915 came to the country. More than in any other the second decade in the history of our country. 569 00:40:16,648 --> 00:40:21,072 I think they are the first unsung heroes, start with the first people, 570 00:40:21,107 --> 00:40:25,307 who bravely came with that first one in small wooden ships in 1607 571 00:40:25,342 --> 00:40:27,524 and it continues today. 572 00:40:28,195 --> 00:40:32,386 I always tell people, just walk through the customs line of the national airport 573 00:40:32,420 --> 00:40:34,887 and write where people come from, 574 00:40:34,922 --> 00:40:39,521 you will understand that the spirit of immigration and the spirit of a better future, 575 00:40:39,556 --> 00:40:41,530 still exists for everyone. 576 00:40:42,439 --> 00:40:47,320 In 2007, one in eight Americans was born abroad. 577 00:40:48,058 --> 00:40:50,688 My mom is Cuban, and my father Australian, 578 00:40:50,731 --> 00:40:52,721 my mother is black, my father is white. 579 00:40:52,757 --> 00:40:56,435 But in America it doesn't matter. 580 00:40:56,891 --> 00:41:01,192 You know, I'm Latino with freckles. 581 00:41:01,226 --> 00:41:02,514 And that's kind of America. 582 00:41:02,550 --> 00:41:04,546 We are mixed people and we always have been. 583 00:41:04,582 --> 00:41:08,083 People definitely want to come here, 584 00:41:08,118 --> 00:41:11,588 because they know that here they can start again, their story will be written. 585 00:41:11,622 --> 00:41:13,480 It can be anything. 586 00:41:13,515 --> 00:41:21,118 Every society in the past has created enormous innovations in civilizations. 587 00:41:21,152 --> 00:41:23,921 And suddenly everyone is here. 588 00:41:23,956 --> 00:41:28,487 It is not just one philosophy. That's many, many philosophies 589 00:41:28,521 --> 00:41:31,883 This makes it a very creative country. 590 00:41:31,918 --> 00:41:34,078 In the last 20 years, 591 00:41:34,113 --> 00:41:39,323 2/3 of new immigrants came from Latin America and Asia. 592 00:41:39,358 --> 00:41:43,613 I think this theory yes you can be everything you want in America 593 00:41:43,648 --> 00:41:45,431 it's not just a theory. That's true. 594 00:41:45,466 --> 00:41:50,284 That is the basic truth, which is played out in the story of every immigrant. 595 00:41:50,318 --> 00:41:52,605 It really is what it is America has always been 596 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,337 no matter where you come from. You are coming to the place 597 00:41:55,371 --> 00:41:59,897 where you can succeed on your own with sweat and hard work 598 00:41:59,933 --> 00:42:02,860 you can achieve something better than �that you had somewhere else. 599 00:42:02,896 --> 00:42:06,966 So, for me, an immigration experiment in America it will never end, 600 00:42:06,976 --> 00:42:09,683 because that's really what it is defines us as a nation. 601 00:42:13,305 --> 00:42:15,963 I think they are Americans 602 00:42:15,964 --> 00:42:20,395 a collection of incredible spirits and beings, 603 00:42:20,429 --> 00:42:24,183 who believe that they are all in it together. 604 00:42:25,474 --> 00:42:27,847 It is a country where you can get a chance. 605 00:42:27,882 --> 00:42:31,638 You are allowed to try everything to achieve success, 606 00:42:31,694 --> 00:42:34,551 and failure is always there. 607 00:42:34,587 --> 00:42:39,475 And try some things and fail in that, you have to be brave. 608 00:42:39,509 --> 00:42:42,866 There is a great attitude in America, can-do-do-it. 609 00:42:45,580 --> 00:42:50,796 I think America is the land of the great possibilities, because there were no strict rules. 610 00:42:50,832 --> 00:42:54,827 We discovered a way and that we followed together. 611 00:42:54,863 --> 00:42:58,137 It is this belief, that wherever you are at every moment in history, 612 00:42:58,173 --> 00:43:02,938 regardless of the circumstances, yes radical progress can�. 613 00:43:05,233 --> 00:43:10,839 I believe it is the United States had and will hopefully continue to have 614 00:43:10,873 --> 00:43:15,031 some great thinkers in regarding entrepreneurship. 615 00:43:16,078 --> 00:43:19,782 We are an open nation. 616 00:43:19,816 --> 00:43:23,706 I think we like new things. 617 00:43:23,742 --> 00:43:26,565 I think we like to try new things. 618 00:43:26,601 --> 00:43:29,609 We sacrificed our blood and money 619 00:43:29,645 --> 00:43:33,008 for great things in America, 620 00:43:33,043 --> 00:43:36,256 was it abroad? battlefield, 621 00:43:36,291 --> 00:43:41,352 or something as banal as the Hoover Dam. 622 00:43:43,165 --> 00:43:47,394 Over the centuries, it was a lot of trouble, 623 00:43:47,430 --> 00:43:49,890 but we usually triumphed. 624 00:43:51,287 --> 00:43:54,754 We are a country, which is always ready to fight back. 625 00:43:54,788 --> 00:43:57,616 It's just part of the American character. 626 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,190 This country is very responsive good under pressure. 627 00:44:05,226 --> 00:44:11,054 She goes through those times under pressing and then coming out stronger than before. 628 00:44:12,042 --> 00:44:16,371 Well, I think it could be said that it is the most important characteristic of our dynamics, 629 00:44:16,407 --> 00:44:19,435 and it is equally important that we are optimistic people. 630 00:44:19,470 --> 00:44:23,445 We are people who believe that the future is our friend. 631 00:44:24,464 --> 00:44:26,595 All are created equal. 632 00:44:26,629 --> 00:44:29,856 It is in the Declaration of Independence. All men are created equal 633 00:44:29,890 --> 00:44:34,264 it really gives voice to the whole American experience. 634 00:44:37,379 --> 00:44:41,329 We still have racial problems, we still have people with special needs, 635 00:44:41,364 --> 00:44:45,013 but the unique thing about America and its diversity and its people, 636 00:44:45,048 --> 00:44:47,898 is that we are always moving forward. 637 00:44:47,934 --> 00:44:50,978 And we always deal with problems, and not to ignore them. 638 00:44:51,012 --> 00:44:55,683 To question your country and her past 639 00:44:55,717 --> 00:44:59,812 and examine its beauties and flaws, 640 00:44:59,848 --> 00:45:02,114 I think it's American patriotism. 641 00:45:02,149 --> 00:45:05,170 In my opinion, it is American character. 642 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,510 I mean, the limits that we are they are too incredible. 643 00:45:11,545 --> 00:45:14,114 In a relatively short period of time, 644 00:45:14,149 --> 00:45:17,999 America helped change the world. 645 00:45:19,430 --> 00:45:24,594 From a few fragile foundations, in just 400 years, 646 00:45:24,629 --> 00:45:29,749 America has grown into the most powerful nation in the world. 647 00:45:29,785 --> 00:45:34,548 Born from entrepreneurial experiments and pious early settlers, 648 00:45:34,582 --> 00:45:39,696 arranged through revolutionary passions and high ideals, 649 00:45:39,731 --> 00:45:45,407 driven by the desire for innovation and technological changes, 650 00:45:45,442 --> 00:45:49,677 a nation is formed by people from all countries of the world. 651 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,619 America, the story of the United States. 652 00:45:52,620 --> 00:45:54,720 Translation: sold 653 00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:01,720 Taken from www.titlovi.com