Society. His remarks are about 35 minutes. An introduction to our conversation on technology, so please welcome eric schmidt, executive chairman of google. [applause] thank you. Is very good to be here. I do want to thank you very much for stepping in on such short notice. I was coming anyway. Coming and speaking in public are two very different things. I want to ask you we have a load of questions for you from the floor as well. A want to ask you how technology will change our lives in various different ways in 2013. What we might do is start and then panicked out and go bigger pan out and go bigger. There are a number of google initiatives that might change logs. One is google glass, this idea of wearable computing. Is that something we will see more and more next year and beyond that . The Technology Works. If you have not heard of google glass, it is glasses that sit right above your focal plane. It is right above. We have been experimenting with what this can be used for. There ar
Their spouse has passed away, they are, in general, tougher and financial circumstances. It is not that i would not have some sympathy for changing benefits, but i would like to do is lower the most for those who are most capable of withstanding the reduction. What do you say . I think the most important point to make about the change cb i is it saves you very little in the long run. It raises you very little on the tax side. If thats the only thing we are contemplating, i guess we talked about eligibility for medicare but we were not talking about sufficient reforms to fix the problem we face. While historically, the chain cpi may have gone up by two or three points less than the cpi w use, there is no guarantee. Is just a forecast. That is just a forecast. We could save more or less depending on how things work out in terms of real reform, i would much rather look at something of this sort that bob discussed, some sort of progress of indexing approach to the problem. That would lower
And to make sure that we are preserving those options and working with interested parties to make sure we can do that. Prosecution will not always be the silver bullet. Obama be applicable in all circumstances. It may well be it may well be a viable option. The more information sharing we can house, we can have, its wilma always be satisfactory, necessarily. We first have to know about the breaches and intrusions that occurred before we can do anything about it. That sometimes causes concerns for companies. If they trust that we will use that information wisely, and try and work with them, to combat this siphoning off, hopefully we will all be better off. Thank you for graciously giving us your time this morning and sharing your thoughts. We want to give you a copy of our latest publication. Please do not be offended, but i think your counsel will find this of minimal value. [laughter] no comment. Thank you. [applause] that concludes our breakfast program. Next, google executive chairm
Up next, a forum on the occupy movement. This is one hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much, everyone, for coming. Thank you to the department of Political Science. Today, we have for pronounced we have for pamela spirit we will have a bit of discussion between them and then moved to audience discussion. First, deborah is the this is a professor of ethics and society. She is also the senior associate dean for the humanities. She is a member of the Philosophy Department and director for ethics and a society. Her research focuses on the ethical limits of the markets. A place of equality in a just society and a rational choice. She also works on ethics and at the in education. She is coeditor of the forthcoming collection, occupy the future. He is a graduate of mit and an early participant in occupy washington occupy boston. He specializes in web applications and design. A cofounder in danger of some in cambridge. Actually, just in Central Square. If he continues to be engaged in
When we talk about organizing a around a singular principal, i dont think the solution is necessarily to consolidate around existing labor movements. It is not necessarily to formulate a third party platform. The solution is to use these tools and use these bodies in order to consolidate power and to use that power to challenge the way in which decisions are made fundamentally. I would like to have time for questions from the audience. Please go to one of the of mikes so it can be sure to hear you. I will alternate between mikes as long as we have people at them. Do you think cooperation does not work in this country because people do not know what it means . Noncooperation, civil disobedience. And if not, why not . In this country. I believe it should work, that is the only way to help in this country, but it does not really work. It works, if you get the numbers. The important thing is about building numbers. And sustaining it. But it certainly works. Worked in the labor movement. Th