Definitely worth every penny. She is here today and afterwards she will answer it questions after the presentation. We even have a table setup for her here to answer more questions or even sign one of the books if you purchased one here today. All right, we are going to go ahead and get started here. Again, thank you for coming and thank you Charlotte Waisman for being here today. applause its great to be here with all of you and thank you for many of you who i know who are coming. Its good to have that smiling audience right in front of you. I was asked to talk about women of the west and i was told to top 45 minutes and take 15 minutes of questions. So i have a timer for myself and i will start it. I will stick to a script so that i can stick to time because those of you who know me know that i also could just talk forever and i dont want to do that now since you probably have other things to do as well today. We are having this filmed so it is very exciting. It will be on cspan thre
Guest it is an information revolution and weve been watching it for the past halfcentury. Computers overwhelmed Media Advertising and it spread into telephones and we were carrying around the internet wherever we went and in the next stage the internet and mobile machines will be carrying us around so it is going to be an age in which all kinds of new choices are going to surface for us and we are going to be able to go a lot of places and it has a big effect on our cities and at the same Time Companies and city governments are going to be able to manage our movements and that will result kind of questions about privacy. It is just the next stage of the internet revolution. Host imagine a scenario, los angeles, 2028. What should we expect . One thing about information resolutions is we cant bet on dates. Weve seen it before with cell phones, Michael Arthur and i were in paris at the turn of the century in 2000 and we were predicting smart phones were going to change communication by 20
Faculty member of the Economics Department and the cochair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivity growth but some that show up in our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible. Thats where we see the opportunity and the challenge in the lesson if you read the Task Force Report which was released last week, one thing that we s say, i think a critical economic lesson of the 21st century, a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass in a wellfunctioning political system. Without that foundation of
Election his comments in vietnam come a day after he announced he believed russian president Vladimir Putin when he said that russia did not meddle also coming up. The spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visits barcelona for the First Time Since imposing direct rule well find out what it means. Plus a first for the arab world the live album dobby opened its doors to the public the billion dollar project promises to act as a bridge between east and west through the medium of art. By michel henery welcome to the program. President donald trump is due to arrive in the l. A. To attend the asean group summit its the last leg of the president s asia tour the summit and the president s arrival have sparked protests in the philippine Capitol Police use riot shields and water to disperse demonstrators angry about a range of issues from globalization to americas influence on their countrys politics trumps this it is also being overshadowed by comments he made on saturday when he said he believe
He did on the basis of data that he was looking at particularly the large number of democrats in key counties and places like northeastern ohio who are switching the Party Registration from democratic to republican. And one of the things they were doing this was that they watched the first president ial debates and they realize that donald trump was speaking about issues that many felt democratic voters cared about. Trade and immigration. Bernie sanders was talking about the issues also which is one of the reasons he did so well in the Democratic Partys primary. But for many of the voters and many swing counties across America Donald trump is where the action was. Michael arthur said this is where its going to be on election day more than one year from now. I was much more skeptical. Although i did see that something was happening. I think you can trace the dates that trump seized control of the election to july 10, 2015. That was about 3 and a half weeks after he launched his campaign