Near feature on book tv. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming through the snow and the sleet and whatever its doing out there, and on star wars day. Its really appreciated. Welcome to the Woodrow Wilson center. How to survive and thrive in the third digital revolution. My name is elizabeth newberryil and i am the director for the gains program. When im not introducing world famous authors, i look at the gains and the tools we have two translate complexity. S from diy file labs and maker spaces for Health Innovation to Citizen Science and Cyber Security labs for congressional staff, we specialize in being the bridge between those on the ground innovating science to those here in washington wanting to make science policy. Our goal is to make science assessable. Were pleased to bring the expertise here to you today. This book demonstrates a convergence of Digital World to get ahead of this revolutionary technology before its too late. From food to furniture, it is changing the way w
Get my steps in. Thank you guys also much for coming. Thank you for coming to wasnt center through the snow, sleet, whenever it is doing and on star wars day. Really appreciate it. I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming you to the Woodrow Wilson center and a lunch of the book designing reality. Launch. My name is Elizabeth Newbury and of the director for the Gains Initiative here at the Wilson Center in the science and Technology Innovation program. This means when im not introducing world famous authors i Transit Research ideas into one most dynamic mediums we have public engagement, gains. As alan might agree, games are one of the best tools we have for translating complexity into an accessible, and there i say fun, format. Translating complexity something we specialize in here for the science and Technology Innovation program from diy bio labs and makers basis for help innovation to science fighting zika to cybersecurity laws for congressional staff. We specialize in being the bri
When we were writing the book, we really tried to find the first social scientist and policymakers that recognized that technology was doubling in performance and it was decades after the article. The social sciences were really reactive to the science and, you know, as a result, next slide, we are still playing catchup. So, you know, neil says anybody can make almost anything but right now 4 billion people are not connected, you cant have a digital fabrication if youre not digit le connected. Before we get to a fab divide which would hold on one second. Access is not binary, its not like you have it or you dont. One investors is Sesame Workshop and they do great job on inclusion and talk about continuation of access. Billions of people have a feature phone, thats all. Try rating a document, fabrication work flows on a future phone, so not even if you have access, you may have minimal access, cost is an issue so about 2 billion people have very limited access. So already most of the pl
Adequately supportive of that traditional ally. People look at the arab spring which has developed into something unsparing like. The question is how much did an american president have to do with that . What can an american president do in response to that . Those are legitimate questions and they are questions you can be sure historians will be debating for a very long time to come. But that in a curious way goes back to my point, like him or dislike him, whatever, the fact that barack obama, and whatever his legacy is will engage the interest and attention the support and hostility of historians and others for a long time to come only testifies to the significance of his presidency and the magnitude of what he has attempted. Richard norton smith is our guest talking about the reporting after the president s win on the trade bills and also the relation ship with the Supreme Court on samesex marriage and their reporting that this was his best week ever. We are discussing his legacy. Y
Lyndon johnson 70 white house and listen to people outside and listened to people outside ask how many kids did you kill today . It doesnt get more divisive than that. It has become unfortunately, the norm. I think we should ask ourselves some tough questions about how we got to this point, and why there is such a bipartisan distrust, not only towards government and People Associated with government, but whoever happens to occupy the presidency. The whole industry of this country, there are networks on the right and left that thrive on the basis of denigrating whoever happens to have that job. It is a Significant Development that say, ronald reagan, who could go on tv and summon thousands of people to make phone calls to southern democrats to pass his budget. Those are no longer available to an american president. The caller has talked about this president being different. Part of that is responding to the different media environments. It is not your grandfathers presidency. The bully