Our next two speakers
are Christian a practice and

Brian priest professor of practice is

fs from the school of history technology
and society here at Georgia Tech.

She is a historian of science and
also works on espionage.

She's the author of numerous books
including most most recently I guess

seduced by secrets inside
the Stasi spy tech world and

East German foreign intelligence.

She teaches courses on technology
including an experimental seminar she

taught on the technology
of Bond James Bond.

Brian priests went to the tech he
graduated in one thousand nine

hundred nine.

With a degree in applied mathematics and
he's been working at G.T. R I.

Since one thousand nine hundred six.

He's been with Landmark within G.T. R I.

Since two thousand and three he works
especially on mobile platform confuting

computing and recently he specializes
in using the i Phone as a development

platform and he's also finishing up his
master's degree in computer science.

Thanks to Aaron for

organizing this wonderful seminar and
I hope to do more of this today.

I thought as you can see I'm much
more casual than James Bond here so

I'm to spawn in the Caribbean
where as I am on this but

I do have my kids today I'm
going to have my talk is much

more informal than errands and I'm going
to talk a little bit about a course

I taught me experiment the course
I taught it previous university.

I was in Michigan.

I haven't taught the course here yet.

I think it's too innovative and
there's a little resistance.

So this is actually a post to.

One of my students made for
the seminar and it's a time.

With all the events happening at the same
time it's a book some films political

social technological and
it's just they just did a terrific

the students they were really
into their research very rare.

So I'd say if they let me
have the posters to see me.

So the point of my talk today is I've I
want to illuminate the role of technology

and bond in both the books and
the films are basically going to

illustrate the difference between the
books in the films and the way in which

the technology was transformed doing
it went from books to film format.

There are two very broad themes in the
technology there are technological themes

in the books which most people don't focus
on that they focus on the gizmos and

gadgets but
they're actually things mostly relating to

the Cold War Of course they're
always in terms of good and bad.

Black and white.

You know good and

evil like the Cold War was a series of
dichotomies in a lot of ways but also be

looking at the technological gadgets which
is what we associate with James Bond.

So as you know you're implementing
program number of books and

the earlier movies are based on his
books later on they got another hack

writer to substitute for him and
here in this in I just love his image.

It's postage stamps but
it has a car on the right in there and

the ship on the left and
then you have Fleming and in the card and

James Bond Fleming was
actually just a priest.

No he he wasn't a big he liked things but
he wasn't a big gadget

man like the fellow who's going to
come and talk to us about i Phones.

Later in the presentation.

He liked for example you know
he was ahead of the curve for

he had a Bafta when he wanted a shower
put in which was actually in the fifty's

apparently very advanced and
he loved cars.

He wrote.

To be to the bank a case he didn't know
about but he was a car for channel so

that comes in in the novels and
the films but

there's actually quite a big
transformation we go when you analyze

the novels and then look at the films and
see look at the role of technology and

how technology is used so when I was
some a professor at Michigan State I

taught a course on technology and asked me
and I was which is a serious course and

looked at a lot of political science
literature and literature on the topics

and you know the students always they
always said you know they really

wanted of course I'm James Bond and
you know they say it sometimes write their

papers on popular culture in James Bond
and there are more thought about and

I said Well geez I want to
course I just want to why not.

Let's try it.

So I I did an experimental seminar.

You know what I wanted to see how to
conquer magination in the world and

it turned out to be just a fabulous
course it was both fun and

educational We looked at the facts versus
the fiction of course I knew all the facts

of this I'd been studying history
of espionage technology and

the students really blossomed they had
never seen them so into their research and

they did real research they just
didn't look on the Internet.

Although now you can find
tons on the internet but

they looked at serious papers and
you know journals of popular culture and

they were quite serious about their
research so it was really a very

gratifying educational experience but in
the quote we found out until actually or

look what I found out intellectually in
the course of the seminar was that first

of all there is more technology in
the movies than the books as a theme and

especially in terms of the gadgets the
other thing we found out where the books

are the books are better than the movies
they have more depth to them.

He doesn't always get the girl.

They are admittedly you know
there are some caricaturists and

cliches but
they're not as bad as the films and.

And there but but in terms of technology.

You didn't have that slam bang Japp job
dropping outlandish technology that you

see in the films the technology
is actually quite realistic it's

not the shape it's quite realistic and
Fleming was actually from

an archive in Indiana University for
those of you who want to do more research.

He was you know he did a lot of research
for his book so you know if you read lots

of you know he would know all the details
about things and put them in the books but

as you'll see one detail he did know and
I'll come to that in a few minutes.

So by thesis is really how these British
novels I mean the British honor of spy

novels is very British mandate from the
current on the B.B.C. during the Cold War

were British I mean I see this is
kind of a and Americanization of.

Ian Fleming the films in Hollywood
a situation through the rise of well of

the a lot of things were going on for
some of the rise of special facts and so

it's not just that we're a narrative
technology although I think that's

a big part of it that we just love
technology more than the Brits for

more fun with their technology
they weren't as outlandish and

slam bang and so I think you know I
would argue that some of this U.S.

technological enthusiasm is injected
into the British spy novel.

Well if you when you look at the films

in the books the good thing the obviously
both of them reflect Cold War culture and

society that's a no brainer but
it reflects a different different ways.

It wasn't just someone living
through it because you are slamming

your work from naval intelligence
from World War two and

weapon tech when you read
the novels it's really strange.

I never read them.

I wasn't an adolescent boy really again so
I never read them until the seminar so

it was a real eye opener for me and
I was just you know totally surprised for

example Moonraker one of the early
novels that featured these evil mustache

Nazis building the rocket aimed at London.

So actually this was you know one of the.

And World War two which he telescoped
into the cold early Cold War period

the novels were written
in the fifty's that one.

And so he transformed things a little
bit and planted in the fifty's but

I'm sure he experienced this during
World War two a naval intelligence and

there are a lot of very realistic details
that I'm surprised they didn't nail him on

the secret British secret Secrecy Act
because you know I found out later

that the these things are real
journal were to some I said so

in that diamonds are forever of
climbing was a journalist and

it was a fictional portraying real life
diamond smuggling in the forty's and

fifty's and has turned out he wrote
a nonfiction book on diamond smuggling

which shocked I think
better than the book.

It's not so cliched and
there you have the gangs in New York so

you have like New York in Saratoga Springs
northerners where he sees them and

of course a lot of these flying experience
in America partly poking fun at us but

also getting to experience
that culture and so.

So we telescopes a lot of his personal
experiences with writing like

sort of dime novels.

You know one of my favorite characters and
so

I was always you and you were talking
about the Bonfire of the girls and

you know the guns and and
you know the recipe and

I think that certainly Q.
and this is a technological universe.

Right.
Really I think

that's the best part of the money Watson.

Yeah I'll tell you something
OK What is he going to do so.

So I have a film clip of him.

I see one of my favorite scenes is
Him From Russia With Love very takes out

the briefcase and he says I am you know
that you when he comes in place and

so that I'll be getting to that few
minutes but this is just a general film

clip of you just start writing
up the technology works.

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Dr knew it was one of the first.

So here is the poster for the film and
then the first edition on the top and

then penguin novels a couple
years ago there were

the novels I used in the class and
so basically what we did was we read

you know I mean obviously saw the films
with them and of course your own ones

are closer to the actual amount of the
later ones have diverged significantly.

And so here is the brief intro to Dr and
this is the car

production and you have to grow the.

Thank you for this technology

the

most so I wanted to get you excited with
the music in case you were flagging during

these presentations Now we should have
some paths you know we're going so

so again this is one of the most
similar books to the films and

basically because there is a lot more work
and the tech gadgets here so there was

a doctor know he was a Chinese German
privacy and he was horribly racist and

awful novels and he's always in
these camps and his dad mentions

getting that he was trying to sabotage
American missile tests for us so.

From elaborate Air Force and sex slave
you always have a leer that's part of

the formula and Strangways one
of his colleagues disappears and

that's the date so he tries to Jamaica and
start a literature

to see Bond as part of you know
Britain's decline and so Jamaica and

I'll be you know the colony British
he's always going there or stay there.

So see holidays and locales.

But of course during the Cold War.

You know the U.S.S.R. American base
are missing the Central to that stuff

that comes up a lot of the U.S.S.R.
U.S. base after in the Cold War and

this is where gets his his wealth and

we're introduced to major Boothroyd
who is actually a real person

who had written to him and
said that this was

an accurate description of these guns and
one of the.

One other differences he doctor always
dealing with and using U.S.S.R.

boy in the movie nuclear power
better with the Army and

the organization was called Specter and

Dr Leiter comes in from the CIA and

sort of then that's realistic in terms
of intelligence agencies relations and

M I six and CIA So CIA was there to
help them out but of perseverance for

better spies but why do you need them.

So for
the gadgets self destructive baggage that

they're still which strange
is the director for

the U.K. because Brett is so don't know.

A lot about.

And so he got most of this
information from a church

major Boothroyd who was a real person and
basically told him You got it wrong.

So that's what this the cover From Russia
With Love the first edition on the left

was here with the rose meter and

here the book covers for
us so From Russia With Love.

I just want to dwell little bit on
this movie because it's one of my

favorites it's also one
of J.F.K.'s favorite so

I'm not alone when it came
out nine hundred sixty three.

But seriously I'm a student
of Cold War espionage and

I think this is one of
my favorite films and

it's actually quite realistic that in the
book and personally I like the book and

you know yeah I don't think you can
Fleming should be dismissed as I write or

if you look at thriller writers today they
can't even put a sentence together child

he said that's how many compound sentences
I started reading his books and it's two

words period and English writing that
were really Fleming's actually writer.

And here is what I want to tell
you about from Russia with Love.

I didn't do this.

Afterwards the film clip I just
want to talk a little bit first.

And I want you to get spoiled.

All right so just what I want
to tell you about the novel.

Well there.

This is the first book in the film where
there are a lot of gadgets a lot more

gadgets in the film than in the book and
it's a very realistic cold war spy

novel Smurfs people always want to know
the Smurfs really assess especially those

teenage boys who read the snow and
actually first date.

Access There was a dusk to spice division.

It was active again in World War two So
you're flying from

a lot of his knowledge of World War two
telescoping to the early Cold War period.

And so he sets up a set out
to offend previous losses by

assassinating James to Istanbul
where I may have been covering

a story with a honeytrap that's
another realistic as such.

Other than my own of and of the promise
of his highly prized backdoor

because Spector Lecter is a cipher
decipher a machine actually And

so again this technology plays a big
role these cipher machines and

it's very similar to the cipher machine
which played a big role during again

during World War two But of course
you know trying to break into enemy

communications was a key aspect
of Cold War as you know but

the way that I think that the book is
just structured in that in a very nice

beautiful way it opens up the whole
first part of the plan and

then the second part of the execution.

So right grand is just execution aren't

It's just a chilling portrait of
an executioner and you know you wonder.

I mean of course it wasn't and
every day matter that you know the K.G.B.

went around killing people and
everything but it didn't happen.

So you always wonder person
was present trigger and

so I think the record read Porter's
very well done very I mean it's

a it's a richer portrait in the film and

in the novel and one of the things I
wanted to do more things I wanted to say.

And so you know there again
the historical details are realistic

it's compelling and everything.

There's one more piece of the last
one here about a couple of

the assassination attempt using
Sally that actually happened.

That's a central part that's in the novel.

Just know this but it is exactly the way
it happened he mentions in the book.

They tried using talented they would have
popped up was a defector he defected and

he was in Germany and
they put Salim in this coffee.

He got very sick a miraculous see
the American hospital there revived and

they you know again transfusions and
he survived and yet

here he was still alive
a couple of years ago

people were interviewing because there
was another case and then Ralph and

there were the same thing happened
this was just a few years ago.

That's kind of scary.

And so it was a real life example of
a man from Russia with full force.

I had texts are in there and also for sex.

You know that's real too it doesn't
happen as often as I would like but

now you deserve the film
clip now that I've talked to

him and said

this is something that summarizes the film
really well it has a technology I'm

not going to work

for Specter to inspire you and
I could be watching

your show the splash which should
go out to submit to EVERY possible.

I'm a strong.

I'd never even touch on my cost gods
before my pictures of her was causing

her if you are just right now or

some such things are so I think there
is any chance of us getting I told.

We simply must look like we stuck
our sure to get the sheet or

to us to be sure to see right.

She's got a dozen Well I
want to start like

Sorry I don't have time to
talk to Tom That's right.

Grant The execution was
to decide to get your

eyes on the car right for
the stuff that will be the same with you.

Thanks

so much.

So the technology.

So you have this right with
the infrared telescope.

You saw that in the book.

It sounds like the cyanide.

And then bomb flushes it down the toilet
but that's actually realistic the CIA gave

their agents psychosis and
when Gary Powers was shot down during

the Cuban missile crisis he had to
sign a bill which he didn't take and

then there was a dramatic case of
the Soviet to factor in the Sinai and

his pen and he said let me sign something
for you took the cap off and put it in

his mouth and the side of the indictment
was true and you know they don't.

Again you know that's not the bread and
butter but it does happen but

it's out in the film just strange
maybe the CIA people saw them and

then they tear gas card just so let's work
them out of course you want the visual

side of this morning you listed
they did this all the time she you

know something was hidden and
I think that's why there's a high

things in containers and then you know and
you know for rifles right gets

put in the book you have a description of
a trade and they're all very realistic so

next time you read it you should read
the book as well as most people.

So here is a list of the of course there's
the dagger shoe the famous dagger shoe and

Rosa club one and even the names
are always like course all the Iraq

like the Civil War and
all the stuff but they are there.

And so these are the pieces and

then I'm coming to my conclusions
because and there's a I like this

American intelligence and there's
a big there's some truth to this so

well this is actually the Soviet speaking
but I think it's really you know he

says that the Americans have the biggest
richest service among our enemies.

Technically in such matters as radio and
weapons that they are the best but

they have no understanding they
have no understanding of the word.

Americans trying to do
everything with money and

there's some element of truth to this but
this is in the fifty's and so

so I'm coming to my hand here and
again the rest is history.

You know I discussed the early films
Quantum of Solace with the last one

I look at the technology used here.

Maybe I

do start to wonder that all of this is

interest to the county
fairgrounds in the top ten.

I have to redo these film clips so
well anyway coming to the conclusion so

just and some of us you can see I like my
history shaken not stirred I want to be

provocative and I do things for
my students they are unusual and maybe you

know that you haven't yet had me but it's
also shaken not stirred the other way.

That's one part history one part
technology and one part society.