pointing out that america s story really is the idea of the american dream, that there is the land of opportunity here and you ask does america still work like that. what did you find out? well, the answer is no. if you start in the bottom portion of the soesh ycioeconom ladder you have only a 17% chance of getting to the top. that s a system that doesn t align with the mythology that we have, that anyone can get ahead if you just work hard enough. let s look at some of the specific numbers. the top 1% take home 21% of the income accounting for 35% of its wealth. wages have been falling for much of the past year. for the first time in 20 years, the percentage of the population employed in the u.s. is lower than in the u.k., germany and the netherlands and you talk specifically about technology. what is the role of technology as we look ahead? well, technology and education are very much related. as long as we re making educational gains, then new technology is great. we can use i