To cspan. Org. Now, a discussion about medical technology and new inventions to aid the disabled. It was part of the washington hosts transformer summit held on wednesday. This is two hours. We are delighted to welcome you here this morning. Thank you for joining us. [applause] were sitting in the center of what we call Washington Post live. The new initiative that extends the reach of our journalism through live events, streaming, and pairs or journalist with leaders and decisionmakers to dissect and explore the most important and compelling issues off our time. The idea of todays conference on transformers actually began with a conversation we had here about the transformation underway at the Washington Post. We have gone from what was once a locally focused newspaper, to a multiplatform Digital First News Organization serving a Broad National and global audience. And although we have made amazing progress and are leading the industry in many ways, well always view ourselves as being
Of what we call Washington Post live. The new initiative that extends the reach of our journalism through live events, streaming, and pairs or journalist with leaders and decisionmakers to dissect and explore the most important and compelling issues off our time. The idea of todays conference on transformers actually began with a conversation we had here about the transformation underway at the Washington Post. We have gone from what was once a locally focused newspaper, to a multiplatform Digital First News Organization serving a Broad National and global audience. And although we have made amazing progress and are leading the industry in many ways, well always view ourselves as being in the process of transforming and never fully transformed, because like so Many Industries the media space is changing to rapidly the process of transforming can never really be complete. With advance in technology, the speed and scope of change is only increasing only accelerating. Achieving or maintai
Up next were going to go from space to dna. And we have eric schulte coming. Hes up next. Thanks very much. Really appreciate it. So a beloved astronomer was faced with a task that would seem daunting to just about anyone. Okay . If we humans were to announce our existence in this universe, how would you do it . And more importantly, what would you say . Now, i say say very lightly here because language is a very human construct. A concept weve applied to many living and nonliving things to help us understand communication. But if were being frank, what is communication . Is it the words . The syntax . The grammar . In the narrowest sense, maybe. To understand what communication is, lets just imagine its 100 years hence and weve all uploaded our consciousnesses into some reddit hive mind Cloud Computer managed by watson and our minds have been reconstructed with complete fidelity 100 identical to the moments of your biological life. And lets say that my mind wants to learn something. I
Take your questions and comments including his life on paul robertson. Thats a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look at them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I am heidi young and i am the director of Corporate Partnership here at world affair. It is my pleasure to welcome you here today. This program is part of the Global Business form, an initiative of World Affairs that focuses on topics of commerce, technology, and society. We will be exploring topics along the line of financial inclusion, future of medicine, and the future of transportation. I hope you will join us for those programs as well. Today, to learn more about the forum, please please csi World Affairs. Org. Today we are pleased to have with us rana, assisting managing editor of time and author of new bookmakers and takers, the rise of finance in the fall of american bu
Coast of south america. Newton will spread some clouds into Southern Nevada by thursday. The uv index for monday is 8 of very high. Las vegas is packed for the busy Labor Day Weekend. The lvcva predicted around 307thousand people will visit our city over the holiday weekend. The tourism push is expected to earn las vegas more than 206 Million Dollars in visitor spending. This labor day were seeing some of the lowest gas prices since 2004. Averaging 2 dollars and 20 cents today. Prices are actually down 22cents from this same time last year. According to gas buddy dot com. The lowest price for gas in las vegas is 209. And the average price around town is 2dollars 41cents. Law enforcement is working with the Rape Crisis Center to make sure we all have a safe Labor Day Weekend. The Party Smart Program works to prevent Sexual Violence by focusing on prevention and training. Their main message is arrive at parties together. Stick together. And leave together. Uber is teaming up with the cam