Agriculture we have to turn it around. We need to move toward organic agriculture land reform and allow people to begin to shift their Food Production from fertilizers and pesticides to more organic treatment. To big john. In europe we are doing it. In parts of asia they are beginning to move toward a more agriculturally sustainable system. We are not hearing doing it here in the u. S. In any major way. Host one of the sections of the book makes a small concession to the idea of near zero marginal cost and i was struck by that. When i think about my internet of things i never believe that what i use is free. I pay comcast hundreds of dollars per month and i pay at t hundreds of dollars per month and i pay and a number of other companies for theirdevices and software to interact with the flow of data. Nothing about the internet is free. Some of those are sunken cost but every month i write a check to comcast. Guest every time i mentioned in the book i stayed near zero. I spent a lot of
It is not 20 years away. 510 years. Already being tested in california. The question is, if we are headed toward near zero marginal cost labor what does it say about the prediction . What do we do . How do we define the human journey . Our people employed in this collaborative, and, in a zero Marginal Cost Society . In the short run i think there is a silver lining. I think that we have a 30year and tear interim where we will have to a bill that the internet of things. That is going to be laborintensive. We have to convert our entire energy use from fossil fuel and nuclear to Renewable Energy. That will require millions of jobs, thousands of new businesses. We have to transform the buildings in the world to your power plant said they can generate screen actors in the near building and it becomes our power plants. Were doing that now. We have to store all of that energy. That requires millions of jobs. We have to put in an Energy Internet, transform the entire electricity grid of the wo
Candidates. In europe we have Public Financing of elections so while the companies at the in brussels they cant write the legislation because they have to divide with other groups. The Regions National governments and ngos etc. So until we have dealt that though this whole question of Companies Buying electricity in the u. S. The u. S. Is going to continue to fall further behind. May come up with new ideas but if you are in an old Energy System and an old centralized economy based on a vertically integrated companies as possible the u. S. And canada will be secondtier countries 20 or 30 years from now. In europe we are wrestling with these issues on power. We told the Power Utility Companies they have to uncouple. They camped on the distribution because it has to act like an internet allowing everybody equal access. In europe we are now having a huge discussion about Data Security and protecting peoples privacy. We all want this internet of things that we created more collaborative wor
Millions are thawing out this morning after celebrations around the country to welcome the new year. Philadelphia hosted its annual Fireworks Show over the delaware river. People also crowded around baltimores chilly inner harbor ring, rather, to ring in 2015, but Wendy Gillette shows us the biggest celebration in times square where about a Million People watched the ball drop. Reporter the glittering Waterford Crystal ball dropped over times square, ushering in 2015 for the estimated 1 Million People on hand to watch. They came from all over the world. Where are you from . Saudi arabia. Reporter most arrived to secure their viewing spots earlier in the morning. After passing through security revelers were confined to massive pens where they couldnt leave, even to use the bathroom. I havent had anything to drink since this morning. Reporter officers and bombsniffing dogs were on patrol to keep everyone safe. It was also a cold night. The temperature felt like it was in the teens and th
Thanks very much. I want to thank the joint center again for inviting me, and i want to i dont want to lose sight of the fact that professor cashins written an extremely valuable and important book, and i, you know, i agree with her bottom line even though i disagree, as you all have seen, with a lot of the reasoning and premises of it. Let me just end by reading a list that i made. You know, years ago. This was in the context of immigration. And, you know, a lot of discussion about immigration and assimilation, and, you know, what does i a simulation mean. Assimilation mean. Are we really expecting people to eat the same foods and listen to the same music, and the answer is, no, thats not what we mean. But we do have certain irreducible, i think, minimum of values that we expect all americans to share. And i think that this is true not only of immigrants, but of people who have been here for general races, whatever their skin generations. Whatever their skin color. Heres my top ten li