The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.