Of the Free State Foundation and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom President obama conferenc conference. I want to extend a welcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junky. My mom, may she rest in peace she always worried when i was a cspan junky, not really knowing what i meant by that. But im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the 10th Anniversary Gala last december, so with next years annual conference will be in double digits for this event, too. Which just confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add when youre busy as well. Almost every year, i say some of you know this, i say that youre annual Telecom Policy conference just keeps getting bigger, better, and more impactful. Well, as long as it remains true, im going to deep saying it. Even though we had to reschedule this years conference becau
Telecommunication policy conference in washington at the National Press club. Thats where fcc chair pie was joined by Administration Officials and leaders. Well show you about three hours of this conference and well start with the discussion on the future of the internet. Okay. Well, everyone is so quiet that i think we should get started. That was really that was really good. Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation, and im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom Policy conference. I want to extend an especially warm welcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junkie. Some of you may have heard me say that before. My mom, may she rest in peace, she always worried when i told her i was a cspan junkie, not really knowing what i meant by that, but im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here, and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the tenth Anniversary Gala last december. So wi
Warm twwelcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junkie. My mom, may she rest in peace, she always worried when i told her i was a cspan junkie, not really knowing what i meant by that. But im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the tenth Anniversary Gala last december. So with next years annual conference, well be in double digits for this event too. It just confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add when youre busy as well. Almost every year i say some of you know this. I say that our annual Telecom Policy conference just keeps getting bigger, better and more impactful. Well, as long as it remains true, im going to keep saying it. Even though we had to reschedule this years conference because our first date, march 14th, happened to be the only snowy day this winter in washington, i think this years conference upholds the tradition. A quick
The new chair. With form er white House Counsel c boyden gray. Okay. Well everyone is so quiet that i think we should get started. That was really good. Im randy may, president of the Free State Foundation. Im pleased to welcome you to the Free State Foundations ninth annual Telecom Policy conference. I want to extend an especially warm welcome to our cspan audience. Im a selfconfessed cspan junkie. Some of you may have heard me say that before. My mom, may she rest in peace, she always worried when i told her i was a cspan junkie, not really knowing what i meant by that. But im always pleased and grateful when cspan is here and welcome to the cspan audience. This years annual Conference Follows on the heels of the tenth Anniversary Gala last december. So with next years annual conference, well be in double digits for this event too. It just confirms the old adage that time flies when youre having fun and i might add when youre busy as well. Almost every year i say some of you know thi
Cspan all right. You say also in the acknowledgments that, i have spent countless hours discussing this book with my beloved partner in life and work with whom i spent countless hours. who is your husband . Guest my husband is steven postrel. Hes a phd economist who teaches Business Strategy at ucirvine down in orange county. We live in los angeles. We met when we were 18 years old, freshmen at princeton. And weve been, you know, were just kind of soul mates, andintellectual and otherwise. Cspan so is thisis this a wonk marriage . Guest werewere not just wonks. Were interested in big ideas, but you know, wewe enjoywe have a lot of fun, too. Its not just policy wonkery cspan were did you get the idea for the book . Guest well, it goes back to a 1990 piece i did for the Washington Post. Ii didnt start working on the book till 95, butback in 1990 i was very interested, as a lot of people were, in the environmental movement. It was the 20th anniversary of earth day. And i took a sort of le