Programmable computer. Its arrival gave the allies a huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering computing work because it seemed like the proper thing to do, and it has suffered the consequences ever since. As i doubt many of you can name a single tech product or startup that hails from this country. What you will see next then may come as a real shock. Ashlee because in its very subdued, selfeffacing way, england has in fact given rise to a handful of Tech Companies that have impacted the world on an immense scale. I am heading from london to cambridge and into the english countryside to fin
Huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering computing work because it seemed like the proper thing to do, and it suffered the consequences ever since. As i doubt many of you can name a single tech product or startup that hails from this country. What you will see next then may come as a real shock. Ashlee because in its very subdued, selfeffacing way, england has in fact given rise to a handful of Tech Companies that have impacted the world on an immense scale. I am heading from london to cambridge and into the english countryside to find the best technology that england has to offer. Along th
Huge edge in world war ii and saved thousands of lives. It also marked the start of the information age. England built 10 of the colossus machines. And they became the heart of its booming computing industry. Actually, no. This is a replica of colossus. The real machines were destroyed after the war so that the pesky russians would not find out about the technology. The metaphor then is a simple one england dismantled decades of pioneering computing work because it seemed like the proper thing to do, and it suffered the consequences ever since. As i doubt many of you can name a single tech product or startup that hails from this country. What you will see next then may come as a real shock. Ashlee because in its very subdued, selfeffacing way, england has in fact given rise to a handful of Tech Companies that have impacted the world on an immense scale. I am heading from london to cambridge and into the english countryside to find the best technology that england has to offer. Along th
Forum. Let me introduce each of the gentlemen here and then i will say a couple of broad words about where we stand in the Defense Budget to allow them to take off from where i leave off. We will have broad discussion among ourselves and go to you about half way through. Immediately to my left is former under secretary of defense who is pentagons comptroller. Bob has been through the battles of not only iraq and afghanistan but sequestration and shut down and has pretty much seen it all in the obama years where he was the comptroller for most of that period of time. He has been with hamilton but speaking today under his own and is also my former boss. I worked for him at the Congressional Budget Office. After that reflects badly in two ways by the time but as things turned out bob went to the air force and was comptroller throughout the Clinton Administration and spent a number of years in various pursuits. And then tom wright is sitting in the middle today. Tom is my colleague at broo
Obamas decisions on afghanistan, including up to the decision to seek the strategic agreement with the afghans that would keep a residual force there after the end of this year. But there were two aspects of the war in afghanistan that troubled me. One was the president s suspicion of the motives of the senior military, particularly when it came to the recommendations on afghanistan. And the second was what you describe. As i told rahm when i met with him, i dont mind that the president speaks out on exit strategies and so on, but the troops need to hear from their commander, the person who is sending them in harms way, that their cause is just and noble, and the mission is important for the country and, therefore, their sacrifices worthwhile. And into two and half years i worked for president obama he only did that once or twice. And i think thats one of the responsibilities of the commander in chief when he deploys men and women in harms way is that he would be willing to speak publi