Technology is a major part of our lives. Its utility that we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible into the future, that we are efficient in a use of energy. It enables our society i think to be far more productive than our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected. And what our smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how communities are connected. One is connectivity. The other principle being sustainability. The other being mobility, and in the workforce. And how all of those components Work Together to make sure that in the 21st century our Civil Society is given the opportunity to really reach its full potential, utilizing the technological advantages advances weve had in this age. Host you refer to it as the utility. Do you see as a utility like plumbing and electricity and streets and things like that . Guest it something we used but its more of an infrastructure, r
The Leadership Group right now so joe terranova, i go to you on that note, the melt up in tech seems to be picking up we asked the question whether the growth tech stocks wrestled the market back from value and then thats where the money is going to be made Going Forward clearly the mega cap growth names have wrestled the market back theres an added dimension to it, scott, being popularized in a lot of Research Notes im reading. Pippa stevens of cnbc has a great report element of esg investing and something i didnt think about in prior weeks but if you take all the esg funds, the largest esg etf, its popularized by all the names that youre talking about. The apples, the amazons, the microsofts, so theres an added element to these hyper growth names that are not just about the quality and the cash Balance Sheets and the very visible return to Earnings Growth but an importance as it relates to social and governance and youre seeing a significant amount of fund flows into esg and thats ev
Our society had trouble with in recent years. That makes us wonder how strong our institutions will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge like this. You cant help but see it as a time of crisis but because it is the time of testing it is also time to think about what americas strengths are, what we are good at and how we can build on that to address the enormous problems we confront. Host how did we get here . Guest that is an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and the quality of the individual on the one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that. Our society has in the past century emphasized the individual, emphasize liberty, emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side look Like Division and fragmentation and isolation, it can look like alienation and loneliness and
Cable Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host representative Yvette Clarke is a democrat from new york. She is vice chair of the energy and Commerce Committee and is also cochair of the smart cities caucus. She is our guest this week on the communicators. Congresswoman clark, thank you for being here to be too be with you, peter. Host what is the smart city caucus and how you envision smart city . Guest we decided to establish a bipartisan smart city caucus originally darrell [inaudible] was my chair and it is now congresswoman from indiana. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future. That we are efficient in our use of energy and it enables socie society, i think, to be far more productive then our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected and
Assess0. The United States . Guest well, thanks for having me. Thats a wonderful by broad question to open with and challengen weeing. We are living a moment of crisis, lard to deny. Weve been through a spring dominated by Public Health crisis that with us. Were facing now also so el crisis that is as old as our country, the struggle for racial equality and for human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges in our society that had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions will perform to be, how well rise to a challenge like this. Think you cant help but see it as a team of crisis but because it as time of testing its also a time to think about what americas strengths are, walt we are good at and how we can bill on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awful complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between th