Id like to start this interview by talking about you. I was talking a little more about you but i like the audience to start off honestly in your introduction. You got a note from a professor i believe saying youd never be apolitical scientist, can you talk about that . I put that in the book is i wanted to major in college and it was really torn between going into science and going into the humanities and social science and i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. And in my Political Science course we read all these great political philosophers on up and they were all asking the question what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people and particularly to make justice. So i ended up before i decided to become a Political Science major, i already had kind of a lack of confidence in my skills as a humanist for a social scientist be
Was the introduction of the iphone, which literally changed the way we use devices with those multimedia functions, and it enabled and opened up several doors of opportunity for us to have this conversation today. But on a regulatory front, which is more in line with your question, in the 1980s, the fcc launched its first cell phone spectrum band. And through a series of those decisions, you know, based on that, we are now seeing and that launched this Global Mobile revolution. And of course revolutions often happen in different phases and different stages. So, now in terms of mobile revolution or evolution, were talking about the fifth phase in some ways, but not in all communities. And thats another topic for another time. But the fifth wave of evolution when it comes to mobile phones. And what we saw around the third wave or so is these devices becoming smaller, more nimble, less expensive, and more ubiquitous. So, you had the popup of a lot of these very accessible sites to buy the
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Know, the betty murphy award is given every year to an unsung hero, Community Service leader, an Organization Builder who inspires others efforts. Betty was an amazing woman. As many can tell, who knew her, she was chair of the nlrb and administer of the wage hour of the department at the department of labor and our very first cochair. We have many past betty murray award winners. The founder of our pittsburgh chapter and was later nominated for attorney general in pennsylvania. We have linda kerns who led our philadelphia chapter in 2016. Did a great job getting president trumps shocking victory in 2016. Later we have mike davis who used to lead our colorado chapter. And mike left colorado to come here to help confirm his friend, kneel gorsuch neil gorsuch. So thats going to be a great panel at the end of the day for all of you who want to watch that. Lastly, we got brenda hankins. She founded her womens initiative. She was also one of the leaders of getting a universal reporting syst