To cspan. Org. Now, a discussion about medical technology and new inventions to aid the disabled. It was part of the washington hosts transformer summit held on wednesday. This is two hours. We are delighted to welcome you here this morning. Thank you for joining us. [applause] were sitting in the center of what we call Washington Post live. The new initiative that extends the reach of our journalism through live events, streaming, and pairs or journalist with leaders and decisionmakers to dissect and explore the most important and compelling issues off our time. The idea of todays conference on transformers actually began with a conversation we had here about the transformation underway at the Washington Post. We have gone from what was once a locally focused newspaper, to a multiplatform Digital First News Organization serving a Broad National and global audience. And although we have made amazing progress and are leading the industry in many ways, well always view ourselves as being
Of what we call Washington Post live. The new initiative that extends the reach of our journalism through live events, streaming, and pairs or journalist with leaders and decisionmakers to dissect and explore the most important and compelling issues off our time. The idea of todays conference on transformers actually began with a conversation we had here about the transformation underway at the Washington Post. We have gone from what was once a locally focused newspaper, to a multiplatform Digital First News Organization serving a Broad National and global audience. And although we have made amazing progress and are leading the industry in many ways, well always view ourselves as being in the process of transforming and never fully transformed, because like so Many Industries the media space is changing to rapidly the process of transforming can never really be complete. With advance in technology, the speed and scope of change is only increasing only accelerating. Achieving or maintai
Up next were going to go from space to dna. And we have eric schulte coming. Hes up next. Thanks very much. Really appreciate it. So a beloved astronomer was faced with a task that would seem daunting to just about anyone. Okay . If we humans were to announce our existence in this universe, how would you do it . And more importantly, what would you say . Now, i say say very lightly here because language is a very human construct. A concept weve applied to many living and nonliving things to help us understand communication. But if were being frank, what is communication . Is it the words . The syntax . The grammar . In the narrowest sense, maybe. To understand what communication is, lets just imagine its 100 years hence and weve all uploaded our consciousnesses into some reddit hive mind Cloud Computer managed by watson and our minds have been reconstructed with complete fidelity 100 identical to the moments of your biological life. And lets say that my mind wants to learn something. I
Okay, thank you. Sorry mr. Rosenfield i can briefly describe these different pieces of legislation. Item number 10, theres a current administrative code allowance allows departments to establish prequalified pools of contractors to draw upon for different professional and General Services. The current duration on those pools is two years. Often times will take it upon six monthsi might even to create apple. So we proposed here were gritty city administrator in the city purchaser, is an allowance that apple could exist for four years provided there is a midcycle reopened to allow new bidders into the pole. We think an efficiency measure per contractors. We do a lot of this kind of conduct and work in office we think more broadly will help manage contracting work in the city. Item number 11, this is a state code requirements. Most counties use consultants to a complex sales tax among other things and requires the board of supervisors authorization to officially designate them as the cons
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