Tonight. My name is rachel miro. I had to look at the sheet of paper to make sure. Am the Senior Editor of our Silicon Valley desk here in san jose. I should say Silicon Valley because we are in mountain view. Joining me on stage is the director of internet ethics, alex damas, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This is part of this series on common ground. It is an initiative ream people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, science and technology. Reckoning with the disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good. Next in the series if you have an open calendar is this tuesday at the San Francisco exploratory and. We will be looking at
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
Because we are in mountain view. Joining me on stage is the director of internet ethics, stamos, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This event is part of kqueds series on common ground. It is an initiative ream people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the force of disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good . Next in the series if you have an open calendar is this tuesday at 7 00 p. M. , at the San Francisco exploratory them we rium. We will look at how to overcome the polarization. On to tonights topic. Democracy is under attack worldwide. Populism is on the rise. Disinformat
The boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up oil prices dropped more than 2 percent on wednesday the 1st time in 5 sessions well explain what this means for the future of the already heard and the Energy Factor plus the u. S. Should now be considering working with weiwei on standard oil this after its a long time war against the Telecom Giant show for you today so lets go and. Numbers for the Global Pandemic now show more than 3700000 people are infected with the krona virus more than 260000 deaths have been recorded will the u. S. Has more than 1200000 cases and at least 43 states actually plan to open completely or partially reopen their economies by this weekend this while president appeared to reverse course when he tweeted earlier ones day that the white. Force will continue indefinitely with its focus on safety and opening up our country again he also reiterated that earlier during a briefing well tensions between the u. S. And china contin
Thank you for coming out tonight. My name is rachel miro. I had to look at the sheet of paper to make sure. [laughter] rachel i am the Senior Editor of our Silicon Valley desk here in san jose. I should say Silicon Valley because we are in mountain view. Joining me on stage is the director of internet ethics, alex damas, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This event is part of kquds series on common ground. It is an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good . Common good . Next in the series if you have an open