We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says
I dont believe in long preambles but i feel that i should say a few words before i Start Talking about technology. The first thing is that i am well aware that many of you have no idea going on. So thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. Tim s speaks very well of you. I know those really big names. So i feel very honored to be here. So who am i. I write a column for the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it. Thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is that i do radio. Adagio for service they called 50 things that makes economy. And all about numbers and how we think about numbers and how number sometimes stray sometimes. It helps us understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called malcolm gladwell. Cautionary tales which is all about things going wrong and sometimes in tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. And what we can learn from them. So in between all of that, i write books. It took about wh
They must open up markets for americas businesses and must add to the millions of american jobs that are currently supported by trade. As Congress Comes together in support of trade deals well help expand the biggest, the biggest mark place in the Global Economy and rereinforce the position to invest and export. To that end, were working to complete a transpacific partnership. This will boost exports and level the Playing Field in the asia pacific. I want to point out that the United States welcomes investment from around the world, from every type of intrep enterprise, and all sectors. We are scommitted to mane taining the most open and transparent investment environment. Our process for reviewing National Security cases of Foreign Investment in the United States focuses solely on National Security considerations and reviews are pleated within a completed within a period of one to three months. So as we press forward, we know where we need to focus our efforts. The prioritiest just ou
Can model and maybe i can go to an example. It works and it works really well. It is a profit maker. It is a government arm, but a phenomenal example of how all things government are not bad, right . We need to figure out how we do that for infrastructure. We need to have a summit approach to that topic alone, because i think ports and rail and airports and all that, this is becoming a bottleneck. The Positive Side is the reason our Energy Market has become what it has become is because we have infrastructure. This countrys pipeline and Storage Networks and energy, which is why it is so important that we do not disable that that is why we have a Domestic Energy sector that is so competitive, to make a point. There is Proof Positive to why your question is something we ought to tackle. We move products all around the world, and our supply chain is world class. It rides on infrastructure, and and we see infrastructure across the world, and we have opportunities to improve the infrastruct
The last decade has seen exponential growth in energy transition and climate technology solutions in response to enormous challenges identified by multiple stakeholders at the government and private sector levels. Challenges: In MENAT (Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey), energy transition is the name of the game.