Problems that may only be applicable or of interest 20 of individuals. 20 of households. Not everybody does yoga or, you know, we saw propane tanks that were, you could connect to the internet so you could know by looking at your smartphone how full they were. And thats probably not applicable to everyone because not everyone uses a gas grill. We start to move into these smaller niche markets. Actually, i have the opposite response. I think what because the cost of experimentation is so low in the market 9utn, what you actua see is sort of 1,000 experiments, 999 of them fail utterly, but when consumers find the right one, got the thing right. We talked in our book about the game draw something. And how went from zero to millions of users in a matter of days. For whatever reason they got it right, and what happens now, consumers essentially tell each other. It not, you know, its not broadcast marketing like it used to be. Its social media based. They say, all right. This is the one that
Getting this sort of thoughtful discussion it deserved. I think 15 or 20 years ago, erik and i talked about this when i was a graduate student and erik was a professor and we felt that people werent taking the issue seriously. If anything, i would say people should not panic at this point. And i think you know, there are a number of remarks i could make. I think there are season for some skepticism or at least a a little bit about how fast things are actually moving. And i would think there is a lot of aggregate data that dont suppo support the idea that the labor market or the idea is changing as a dramatic story. So the premium to Higher Education has plateaued over the last ten years. And in fact, we see evidence that highly skilled workers are moving have less rapid career directors and moving into less skills and productivity is not growing rapidly and the unemployment growth weve seen have been in relatively low education, in person serve occupations which has a Technology Elemen
The time we act first and study later. We have been engaged in this war against extremism for the last 13 years. We have no strategy. Almost everything was being handled by the military. And a lot of it was off the cuff. A lot of it was knee jerk. There were a lot of problems on who was responsible and who was accountable. So for the first time when i took over when this government took office i think one of the first imperatives for all of us was to have a strategy, have a policy. So that is the reason we worked almost six months. We worked with the military, we worked with the provinces, the provinces are a very, very important part in the whole organizational setup, and it was difficult. It was easier working with the military. It was more difficult working with my fellow colleagues in the provinces. We worked with a whole lot of experts, with the media, National Security experts, and it took us almost seven to eight months to come up with this policy. Part of it was implemented. Yo
It is not the trophy or the triumph. It is the respect that is jacks rivals or member of the most. That is what gives the 1986 masters his size. To win, he had to overcome that day norman, and according to some, father time. That day we were a part of something special. Something bigger. Just as we now are today. Is not whether you win or lose, it is how you play the game. And no one has played it better or longer than jack. Today be congressional Gold Medal Ceremony for professional golfer jack nicholas, on cspan. The Brookings Institution recently hosted a forum on the impact of technology on the workforce. Speakers included larry summer. This is just over one hour. Great. Melissa they queue all for joining us this morning. My name is melissa carney. I have the privilege of moderating our First Panel Discussion this morning. This panel is going to take the premise that andy and erik laid out for us, that there has been rapid technological advance in particular in the information cent
That it becomes more and more clear to me and erik that the future is coming at us more than the experts are predicting. That means the economic consequences are coming more quickly than a lot of us are expecting and makes the discussions for today all the more important. Thanks very much. [ applause ] thank you all for joining us this morning. My name is melissa carney. I have the privilege of moderating our First Panel Discussion this morning. This panel is going to take the premise that andy and erik laid out for us, that there has been rapid technological advance particularly in the information center. We will ask the question what does that imply for the future of work, the future of workers and the nature of employment in this country in particular . As we tried to lay out in our hamilton project framing paper there are a lot of views on this topic and in particular if this will be good or bad on that or how good or bad on that for society. Fortunately this morning we have a real