Announcer next, q a with former chief economist of the fcc, thomas hazlett. Brian tom hazlett, why did you write the book the political spectrum . Tom there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. Wireless seems like a bit of magic. It has always seemed that way. We had 100 years ago a Supreme Court chief justice say he did not want to get any radio cases because he did not want to have to dive into the law there. The law of the occult. So, this seems offputting to a lot of people. The way we allocate radio spectrum come and how we make Resources Available to the Wireless World we are in today, is fascinating, and there is a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio act. Primary actor Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. It is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, t
Then they wouldnt be waiting in the middle of the town. We all have requirements on how long we can block thank you. And just if i could, just one more question on distracted driving. Right now only one state received our funding for the distracted driving grant which we would really like to have changed. Theres a ton of money sitting there and we have an emerging problem. Thats why senator hoven and i have sponsored a bill with senator booker to change that criteria to get that money out to states for engsducation efforts. I thought id ask you, ms. Ault, whats kinds of technology . We know thats drivers are doing things they shouldnt do in the cars. A lot of them have admitted to this in sorry have as and ss ss survey surveys. Weve had more than 3,000 People Killed that we know of from distracted driving. Again, these are individuals making decisions on their own. Are there any technologies you think from the Car Companies that could be helpful with this . I can speak not from the Car
Isnt this something that is just absorbed over time as more employers employees make money, they spend more and then youll have to rehire. Isnt this a red herring argument . And my second question is, why dont we just increase minimum wage or do some index so were constantly increasing wages and we dont have to have this discussion. With the minimum wage l on the increase economists by and y large agree that there is a negative impact overall on the economy, particularly on like the 18 to 25 demographic where you see recordem levels of n unemployment. Thats because they do not get the entry level jobs. Employers are not hiring those low level jobs. I wo i would disagree that its a red herring. Theres a real impact on the businesses in this country. I with due respect, i completely disagree with her ngs of readings of the economic studies which have come to conclude theres no significant job loss associated with raising minimum wages. And while it is true that youth hat yout unemploymen
You bring lots of different people to the table. Is this mostly parents wanting their kids to be the next Mark Zuckerberg . There is interest from parents, teachers but as we started to take the kid around the world to sierra leone for an sense, there is this sort of rising creative generation of kids who are pulling together resources, software, a bit of design and making things that perhaps the brains in this room as monumental as they are could never have imagined. We met a man. This kid and he was 13 started pulling electronic parts out of the garbage and went to an internet cafe. He looked at what the components did and within a couple years he built a battery. A couple years after that he built his own Radio Station was brought testing across sierra leone. Weve had spoken word artists used to compose and kids build servers and game consoles. The core audience now, obviously a lot of parents and teachers know in order to prepare the next generation they have to speak the language
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd