He and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. I started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written . It is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. We talked about the dangers and issues. Maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. At the time he wrote the book, were reasonably sure that the revolution in the Tahrir Square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. Now it seems were back to square zero. If you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. We have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. But if you empower people, ultimately, the gun still speaks. Im not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. One of the things we had written about in the book is that governments in the midst of conflict will become so concerned about empowered citizen
He and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. I started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written . It is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. We talked about the dangers and issues. Maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. At the time he wrote the book, we were reasonably sure that the revolution in the Tahrir Square in egypt was going to produce a pseudodemocratic outcome. Now it seems were back to square zero. If you look at the ukraine today, it is not at all clear what is going to happen, and no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. We have learned there is some kind of limit to technological optimism. But if you empower people, ultimately, the gun still speaks. Im not sure it is a good answer, but it is a true answer. I was just on the Syrian Border about three weeks ago. One of the things we had wri
That chair is authorized to declare races of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled, Holding Meghan banks accountable. Oversight of americas Largest Consumer facing banks. I recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Testifying before us today, we have the ceo of the seven largest u. S. Commercial breaks that each serve millions of consumers. Chairwoman of this committee, i prioritize connecting rigorous oversight over our nations largest banks and their activities. Last year for these mega banks that survived for us. Since then our motion continues, to battling ongoing epidemic. Inflation that is affecting every household budget, russias invasion of ukraine, raising Interest Rates another crisis. And better that economy. In this environment, the role of banks played to protect consumers and provide access to Affordable Credit is absolutely critical. Over the past several years that weve seen several symptoms of banking across the country take a dramat
Newsmakers in the world. Not just in technology, but in the world. Inyahu net and y in Silicon Valley, trying to make better connections with Technology Companies. We spoke to him exclusively. It was an interesting conversation we had about that. An interview with eric schmidt. With eric schmidt, the executive chairman of google and jericho and. Cohen. Jericho we started by talking about what is happened the last what has happened in the last year. The paperback is out this week. Since they wrote the original , i asked if anything had changed their conclusions are predictions. If he read the book a year ago and you read this version and you look at the epilogue, a lot of things we talked about is happening. He talked about the dangers and issues around old leaking. That has occurred. Most interesting thing has been the unpredictability up local change because of technology. At the time we wrote the book, we really do were unsure that the revolution in egypt would produce a pseudodemocr
Balloons and more. I sat down with google executive chairman eric schmidt at the oasis montgomery summit in santa monica. He and his partner jared cohen are authors of this book. I started by asking schmidt, what has changed in the year since the book was first written . It is interesting, if you read this book from a year ago, a lot of the things we talked about did happen. We talked about the dangers and issues. Maybe the most interesting thing has been the unpredictability of political change because of technology. At the time he wrote the book, were reasonably sure that the revolution in the Tahrir Square in egypt was going to produce a particular outcome. A pseudodemocratic outcome. Now it seems were back to square zero. If you look at the ukraine today, no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. If you look at ukraine today, it is not at all clear what is going to happen, and no one has a proposal how to deal with syria. We have learned there is some kind of limit to technolog