It still says in 20 years theyl bring us Artificial Intelligence. Theres a wonderful guy in my book who ill get to in a moment. Lickliter said maybe so, but in the meantime, why dont we connect ourselves more closely to our machines, because thats going to be more useful. So in all the data points we have of the 60 years or so of the digital revolution has been that the combination that ada envisioned of the technology of humans and machines has always proved more fruitful than the class of pure Artificial Intelligence. Now, alan tourings own life, in some ways, is tragic, heroic and somewhat of a reminder that maybe we arent machines. After he does the imitation game, he debates it with people. People keep saying, you know, you have to have consciousness, you have to have impulses, you have to have sexual desires to be human whereas a machine wouldnt do that. He went kind of silence during those parts of the bbc debates because at that time he was engaged in the activity when the deba
Compromised, these have become two of the polarities that structure the very leftright order of battle in american political life as much as the debate over the role of government, led by Barry Goldwater, and the cultural war between mutually recriminating cultural sophisticates on the one hand and the plain or silent majority on the other that i labeled in my previous book nixon land. Note well that reagans side in this plait call battle of political battle of assets which is carried far above the minutiae of electoral tallies has prevailed. And here is their romney and accepting the nomination in 2012 speaking of the day your son Neil Armstrong land on the moon all americans who went to bet that i knew we had the greatest country in the world many some people would have thought differently but by that formulation theyre not americans. Of googles search yielded 114,000 hits. With such utterances are meant to be an ideological approach always apologizing for america. Of obama goes abro
If you havent read Walter Isaacson it is a delight to read and because he connects us with devices that connect our lives. Everyone of you is carrying around something that has dozens and dozens of technological streams that have merged to get it to give us the connectivity we assume it today. Walter is the best person i know. Alter is the best person i know at explaining the connections that lead to the things that change our lives. In his new book the innovators how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution walters drinks together not just the hero stories but the stories that you wouldnt here because these things are not made by individuals. Walter does of phenomenal job explaining how the team work involved and the history is exciting and reverting. I will go back to my script for one thing i could not say better. I will quote salon. Com and say if anyone in america understands genius, it is Walter Isaacson. [applause] thank you very much, jim. Notice h
What i have heard and read is that they will come back in the fall and see if they can come back to the table with something on the house side. A similar exercise occurred on the senate side. The senate bill was beyond sequestration lovells. We, the senate bill was beyond sequestration levels. We, at the department, felt better about the senate bill. Sequestration is a blunt instrument. Pham and arithmetic perspective, it places the with from an arithmetic perspective, it places caps and makes it difficult for us to accomplish the goals we have for our country across a variety of fronts. I think there is a growing sense that there is a need to relook at it. You do not have any idea of what the numbers are or some of the projects. I can live with it. With i am saying to you is that the situation is obviously very fluid. In our department, we happen to be ready for just about anything. Thank you, mr. Secretary. We are honored to have you with us. Most governors recognize how important tr
Thank you. It is great to see all of you. Many of you are old friends. It is nice to come back. It feels like the homecoming. We have a great panel and a huge subject. How to know where to begin . This is about the first ladies as influence makers. That is the term that is itself subject to perhaps misunderstanding on multiple definitions. You have written among other about the book explicitly first ladies of the 20th century, which presume there is someone Something Different about them. Influence . Ou define it is a vault. It has evolved. We saw the influence begin as one that was ceremonial and focus, and since the beginning of the 20th century, and since 1960, we have seen the president ial spouse assuming more influence. It goes way beyond hello talk. Lady bird used to say that the first lady was the only one who could tell the president to shut up. And then, not be fired. That influence has taken various forms. Sometimes, the concerns of the first lady become the concerns of the