We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
These jigsaw blocks. They have real code, by the way. That python gets pumped in. Instead of playing by the rules kids are remaking the rules. They are warping into existence a sky jail, a waterslide. They are teleporting around the map. We want to make its feel like neo in the matrix. They think it is an artificial world, then see that it is more human than they think. Gaming, by the way, is a beautiful metaphor for this. Natasha you have some additional product today. What are you doing what is the new kano . Alex it is a significant step forward for us. It is six times faster, has double the memory. It still is these wonderful creative projects that make art. It is a digital easel to make characters. It is very immediate. The Game Mechanics are stepbystep. You learn how to type simple commands, we call the magic spells. You see colors, and shapes appear before your eyes. That is a narrative adventure called terminal quest. It is a mystery. It is a narrative mystery told stepbystep,
Public service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and our guest this week on the communicators is representative marsha blackburn, a republican from tennessee and the new chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Chairwoman blackburn, what are some of your priorities this year . Guest oh, we have plenty of priorities. Were looking forward to doing some Good Housekeeping work, if you will, cleaning up at fcc and ntia. Those two agencies also have to go through a reauthorization. Fcc has not been reauthorized since 1990, and ntia since 92. So were looking forward to moving forward with that. You know, we appropriate in the federal budget every year there are, theres 310 billion that are appropriated over 200 agencies that have not been reauthorized. So thats kind of item number one, making certain that we do that. And, you know, within that as youre doing reauthorization, it is
Wonderful example so assuming some social and economic provisions ought to be in the tax laws, lets think about tax credits. Every dollar of tax credit saves you one dollar. It doesnt matter what your marginal tax bracket is. So if you owe a thousand dollars and you get a thousand dollar tax credit, you dont owe anything. If you owe a million dollars, you owe a million minus 1,000. Now, the tax credits also should be refundable in many cases where they are social programs because a refundable tax credit like the earned income tax credit which says people who are working but dont earn a living wage are going to get extra money to help them have a living wage. And so if you make it refundable if you dont owe the income tax, youll get a direct grant. Both commissions said that about the Home Mortgage interest deduction, replace it by a credit. Congress ignored that. Finally, you might have the largest credit for people who need the help most and the least credits for people who need the h