Faculty member of the Economics Department and the cochair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivity growth but some that show up in our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible. Thats where we see the opportunity and the challenge in the lesson if you read the Task Force Report which was released last week, one thing that we s say, i think a critical economic lesson of the 21st century, a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass in a wellfunctioning political system. Without that foundation of
Welcome to the Land Use Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisorses. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined virtually on Microsoft Teams by vicechair supervisor safai and Committee Member preston. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and ff gov. Org are streaming the channel across the sf gov. Org are streaming the channel across screen. You can call 8882045984. The access code is 3501008. Then press pound and then press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the qu queueu to speak. The system will notify phi you w
Bob iger will continue to direct creative endeavors. And conversations from tech regulation to politics. We begin with the coronavirus and the outbreak spreading beyond china. The firstted states, known case of unknown origin was reported in california. The state is monitoring thousands for signs of exposure. President has tapped mike pence the task of overseeing the u. S. Response. Trump spoke from the white house wednesday. Done,ause of all we have the risk to the American People remains low. We are ready to adapt and do whatever we have to. This is like a flu. I think the stock market will recover. Emily but the markets were not all fine, with markets pinned to the virus threats. The s p 500 and dow jones suffered big losses this week. As for the tech sector and supply chains, microsoft and apple sounded the alarm. I caught up with dan ives thursday. Tragedy, butjor view is that we have to look at if this impacts demand or changes dynamics for our winners. When i look at names like
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than
Mobile machines so this is an agent all new choices will surface for us and we will be able to go a lot of places to have a big effect on our cities and at the same time city governments can manage our movements and with a question about privacy. Is the next stage of the internet revolution. Los angeles 2028. What should we expect . One thing about information revolutions is we have seen it before. My coauthor and i were in paris at the turnofthecentury. And we were predicting that smart phones would change communication. And it turns out they didnt come until 2007. But the changes are still important. So what will we see . Will see a lot more choices and spend billions of dollars on public transportation. There could be cars that are semi autonomous living in parts of los angeles. I dont think by that point we have fully Autonomous Cars going around in that space. But there could be airships like small robotic drones that carry people around los angeles. You spend some time with mayor