The communicators. Congresswoman clarke, thanks for being here. I want to start with the smart cities caucus. First of all what is it and how do you envision smart cities . Guest we decided to establish a bipartisan smart cities caucus. Originally darrell issa was my cochair. Its now congresswoman from indiana susan brooks. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its the utility that we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future, that we are efficient in our use of energy, and it enables us as a society to be far more productive than our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact so much of what already exists in society is connected, and what our smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how communities are connected. One is connectivity. The other principle being sustainability. The other being mobility. And then the workforce. And how all of those components Work Together to make sure that in
The incarceration rates in the United States and then russia being the worlds highest its really hard to draw a Straight Line from language to a statistic like that because there are so many other factors that also all play and so we would have to do a very careful study trying to rule out is that even possible do you think you can design a study like to prove that connection the reason it would be hard to do in the real world is because if were going country by country there arent actually that many countries in the world and so you very quickly run out of statistical power thats a technical answer to your question but you could do expect some smaller scale experiments where you ask people to make judgements about. Blame and punishment when theyre seeking one language or another or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less intent of language and see if they make different judgments we use the example of the. Stan timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe malfun
Kind of governance how i conduct myself oftentimes and just my frame of mind. But today, im going to pick an image of the day and if you look at your screen, one of our shared with me, commissioner louis with me this image. And i think really set the tone and the state oimportance of why were here. And of course thesignificance of this panel. Now, this is a chinese book. For kindergartners. And circle even if you dont chinese, circled are two letters. Ai. Kindergarten, textbooks. Ai. The senator talk about us tooling ourselves and getting ready from grade school to grad school. Now were talking about kindergarten. Or even prek if were going to be keeping ahead and released a number onewhen it comes to ai. So i wanted to start with this image. Because again, its really for me othe urgency of why this commission was formed and why you think and know its so important that we are here today. And to explore the role of the aei workforce should play and how the government may recruit train e
Percent more in fines than if we say the costume ripped even though theyre watching the same video now you mention. Language to universally distribute certain practices in english clearly is the lingo all. Times. Do we end this the are there any indications of why it has been able to gain such a status isnt because its relatively easy to learn compared to other languages are other perhaps alba cracked or contributing to that probably economic factors are the most important where English Speaking countries are driving a lot of Economic Growth and a lot of innovation that spreads to the rest of the world a lot of places want to then speak english so they can participate in the trade or participate in the tourist industry whatever whatever it is that makes sense for them but you know lots of other languages have held sway at other times. When we look at a particular historic moment and say oh english has taken over soon everyone in which i speak english the amount of time that english has
A lot of Economic Growth and a lot of innovation that spreads to the rest of the world a lot of places want to then speak english so they can participate in the trade or participate in the tourist industry whatever whatever it is that makes sense for them but you know lots of other languages have held sway at other times so often we look at a particular historic moment and say oh english has taken over soon every religious speak english came out of time that english has been dominant has actually had very tiny portion of historical time compared to say the greek empire or the roman empire obviously of all other languages english comes with its own cultural baggage and i wonder as a both escolar and a speaker of english is there anything in it. You either dont like or perhaps find to be imposing. Well you know in any language. There going to be some things that are required and then there. Going to be some things that are optional and. For example right now there is a big debate in engl