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NOVEMBER 2019 BCBUSINESS 23 BCBUSINESS.CA we're also big in events, big in licensing. So publishing, in terms of print, has to be part of a package. Even before the Internet, take newspapers, they were packages. They had sports, stock market tables, mutual fund tables, crossword puzzles, horoscopes, com ics, news. Each part of the package doesn't have to be selfsupporting; it's just got to be part of a group that makes it desirable. 8 Where are we headed with automation and AI? Automation and AI will end up creating new jobs and a higher standard of living. It's too bad we use the term artificial intelligence, which is really a tool for doing neat things. We don't call airplanes artificial birds, and we don't call auto mobiles artificial horses. We've had massive techno logical change in the past 200 years, and the amazing thing is, 95 percent of the workforce has jobs. Back in the '60s in the U.S., when concerns arose about automation, 60 percent of those jobs don't exist any more. And we have a whole slew of new ones, and U.S. unemployment's the lowest it's been in 50 years. 9 You ran for president in 1996 and 2000. Who will win the 2020 presidential election? If I knew that, I'd be in Las Vegas placing bets and getting on the Forbes 400 rich list. With Trump, his situation reminds one of back in 1972, when Nixon was running for reelection. The head of the Democratic National Commit tee, a fellow named Robert Strauss, who had a great wit, said, "We Democrats could beat Nixon in a landslide if we didn't have to run anyone against him." They have to run somebody. And if the Demo crats keep lurching to the left, people are going to go with the incumbent if the economy is good. If the economy is not good—if this trade thing gets out of hand—then the Demo crats could win. • BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS The Power Broker by Robert Caro, a massive biography of Robert Moses, who created modern New York; Philip Howard's Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideolo- gies of Right and Left GUILTY PLEASURE Eating food I shouldn't eat PET PEEVE Years ago, I had a pet peeve that foreign-made cars didn't have cup holders. That's changed, thankfully. The Ger- mans had to learn that even though it might violate their sense of engineering purity, Americans need a place to put their soda and coffee . LATEST CONCERT Bruce Springsteen On November 20, Steve Forbes will be the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Surrey Innovation Awards Lunch, hosted by the Surrey Board of Trade and sponsored by BCBusiness. For tickets to this event, emceed by Canada Wide Media chair and CEO Peter Legge, visit businessinsurrey.com or call 604-581-7130 Built on the latest globally recognized best practices, innovation, environmental and social responsibility. n o r t h c o a l . c a A NEW ERA OF MINING