Larry man, thank you very much welcome to the nightly show im larry wilmore. Larry, larry, lars larry i appreciate it. Such a good crowd here tonight. Man such an amazing crowd. You know its a good crowd when youre not going to do any hurricane jokes and they dont care. They just dont care. laughter thats the kind of crowd we have, thats the kind of crowd that is tonight. But so youre welcome. Are you going to do any hurricane jokes . She was so nice, so nice, so nice. I understand, i understand. Actually, before we begin, on a serious note, some of you may not know here in the studio audience, there was a terrible shooting at a Community College in oregon. And i just want to say our thoughts and prayers are with everybody there. And its always tough to do comedy in these types of days, but hopefully, you know, we can still be of some comfort to the people out here. So thats our job to do some comedy, so lets try to cheer america up. What dow say . All right. So lets start our little c
Is funded by taxpayers. Our speaker is chair of the Organization Since mid2014 and we hope to hear bro adams plans for marking that opportunity organization. Its politically eclipsed in recent years 146 milliondollar budget grants generally go to state Humanities Councils museums, research and educational institutions. Than native of michigan adams has degrees from Colorado College and the university of california and santa cruz. His formal education was interrupted by three years of service in the army including one year in vietnam. It was partly that experience he says that motivated him to study and teach the humanities. He has said quote it made me serious in a certain way and as a 20yearold combat infantry adviser i came face to face acutely with questions of writers artists philosophers and musicians are examining in our work starting with what does it mean to be human unquote. Later he coordinated the great works in western Culture Program at Stanford University and served as Vi
Important because they touch local communities. Every one of them is about a local community in some way. We have to keep making that pitch. We also need to make this argument about the public relevance and how not only how much poorer we would be without them and the work that we do but how incapacitated we would become if we did not have these entities doing what they do. With only two years left of the Obama Administration how do you approach priorities to get as much done as you can . I was just talking about this with a few people this morning. I think we have to think about the most important things 1st of all. And sort them out. Things that would be reasonably pursued in his timetable. There is a way that i and my administration might have a longer life than that. We do understand there is this big moment coming. The scope of the work that we agree to take on we dont want to take on things that could not reasonably be done for eight years. That is too far. Trying as best as we c
The communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Well now we want to introduce you to Ulf Ewaldsson with the Erickson Corporation Senior Vice President group chief Technology Officer. Mr. E waldson, before we get into what you do, just want to make the statement that erickson is not the Consumer Product corporation that it was a few years ago is that a fair statement . Guest absolutely. We are not in consumer at all. But being here at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas you can really see how relevant networks, which we are doing, are becoming to just basically, every Consumer Product out here. Host for a while people owned erickson phones. Do you even manufacture them anymore . Guest no, we dont. Host so a more of a business to business type . Guest we are the Global Leader in infrastructure for networks where we provide bot
It is a complex answer. Let me try to explain. 5g is more than just another network. It is an even nation an evolution of 4g into a network that is much more responsive, much faster, built for machine type communication. In ericsson, we talk about a Network Society. And the Network Society is a society where everything that can benefit from having a connection will actually have one. We put a Vision Forward in 2009 in barcelona in the trade show going on there of the 50 billion connected devices in 2020, which has caught on very well in the world. And that, i think, open to many peoples minds that the mobile industry is not limited to the smart phones and devices we carry around personally. It also is a Great Technology to connect so many other things and to be able to build a Better Society based on those kinds of technologies. Host on ericssons homepage there was a post about a connected world is just the beginning. What does that mean . Ewaldsson if i should interpret it. I think th