As man has ever traveled, two miles down, to get to the rock thats become this liquid molten gold. But golds not all, scientists have found Something Else down there something known as extreme light. Which might also exist on mars. So the martians we meet in the future be prepared to be surprised, i would say. ticking welcome to the future m. I. T. s media lab, a place that follows crazy ideas wherever they may lead. We get to think about the future. What does the world look like ten years, 20 years, 30 years . What should it look like . Time to go to sleep. How about dream control . Robotic prosthetics . Whats the largest city in bulgaria and what is the population . Or connecting the human brain to the internet . Sofia, 1. 21 million. That is correct you know, the best way to predict the future is to invent it. ticking im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im scott pelley. Im anderson cooper. Im bill whitaker. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking a lot will happen in your life.
Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap
The committee will come to order. Before we begin, i want to remind all members we are in open session. We will discuss unclassified matters only. Please have a seat. Our members may be wandering in a bit late. We are here until 1 00 in the morning. But those in Armed Services were here until about 5 00 or 6 00 in the morning. So a few groggy members here on the committee. In the heat of the 2016 election, as the russian hacking and dumping operation became apparent, my predominant concern was that the russians would begin dumping forged documents along with the real one that is they stole. It would have been all too easy for russia or another malicious actor to see forged fox sh documents among the authentic one that is will make it impossible to identify or rebut the fraudulent material. Even if the victim could expose the forgery for who it was, the damage would be done. Three years later, were on the cusp of a technolaj cal revolution that could enable even more sinister forms of d
Hi, im corn field and welcome to doing building San Francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. Lets take a look at that. Here at the spur urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. I have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both Structural Engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do . Both structural and maybe even important nonstructural things. You hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. What you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself fe
Books and books and Miami Book Fair presented an evening with Cory Doctorow discussing choke point capitalism. How big tech and big content captured creative labor markets, and how well win them back. Choke point capitalism is a call action for the Creative Class and labor Labor Movement to rally against the power of big tech in big media. Cory doctorow is a best selling Science Fiction writer and activist. He is special advisor to the electronic frontier, with whom hes worked for 20 years. He is also a visiting professor of computer science, the open university and a Library Science at the university of North Carolina. He is also an Mit Media Lab researcher. Brilliant. He cofounded the cofounding uk open rights group and coowns the website boing boing. He is the author than 20 books, including novels for young adults, graphic novels for middle grade readers, picture books and nonfiction, books on technology politics. You can follow him twitter at doctorow. And before i think of any mo