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Host professor will come. I am looking forward to what the listening audience to get through the pages to follow the story line. But you start in the preface to talk about leadership. Were you thinking about a book of leadership when you started . Guest leadership is one of my preoccupations. That is what i was going to do but i was struck that not only with the facts and figures with the sad state of infrastructure but i was also of a tripping on potholes and stories of innercity people who could not get to the jobs or wed take two or three buses and subway to get to school so but first raise subway connections we went to another city in 20 minutes so all of those things together made me feel this is an important issue. You were a help with the whole project talk about the need for a new america at the end of the Clinton Administration we have defense spending and preoccupation we havent made those investments were i am p ....
House a visit. But there are historical examples when that situation has arisen and when the powers that be have gotten the answer they did not like they went to another consultant who did give them the answer they were looking for in the bridge got built and collapsed. So these are again political on a certain level and people psychology is probably not the proper word, human nature problems. Im a big fan of your work on evolution of design and im wondering your perspective on how infrastructure is going to start to evolve as we go without cars and transport, how to think the roads and things will change after we get these cars off the road . Well if you could get the roads out from under the driver, actually do have a chapter of the and that technology is moving pretty quickly, tana ms. Vehicles self vehicles. The technology is almost basically here, it becomes a Public Policy question at this point, local laws written such that ....
Change but i was also tripping on potholes like everybody is. I was stuck in traffic. I was hearing sad stories of innercity people who couldnt get jobs or had to take two or three buses and the subway to get to school. So that was going abroad and writing a maglev train in shanghai where we went to another city. Subway connections to the train. The train was so fast we went to another city in 20 minutes that otherwise took an hour and a half by bus. So all of those things together made me feel this is a really Important Mission and i had already been talking to you. You were such a help in this whole project. I had already been talking to you about the need for a new vision for america because you have been putting forth a vision just at the end of the Clinton Administration when you are leaving office. Unfortunately the world changed in the 2000s. We have a lot o ....
This issue of infrastructure which really not only the facts and figures about what was happening in america and a sad state of much of our infrastructure i was stuck on traffic. Sad stories. They could not get to are had to take two or three buses and the subway. That plus going abroad and riding a train in shanghai where we went to another city 1st of all subway connections to the train the trainer so fast we went to another city in 20 minutes. So all those things together made me feel this is an important issue. I have been talking to you. About the need for a knew vision for america. Just at the end of the Clinton Administration when you are leaving office and then unfortunately the world changed in the 2,000s. A lot of defense spending and preoccupations and the financial crisis. The kind of investments we need to make heaven been done. This is so important to the future of the country and im part of the us competitiv ....
Host professor welcome i am looking forward to getting into this book to have the appreciation i have had for the audience to go through the pages to follow the story line but i found interesting but you Start Talking about leadership. For you thinking about a book on leadership when you started or how did you get to that . Guest and leadership is my preoccupation and the topic that is what i was going to do but i kept getting struck by the issue of infrastructure literally not only facts and figures in but was happening in this sad state of much of the infrastructure for innovation and change but but also potholes like everybody else in stuck in traffic i was serious debt stories of innercity people who could not get to jobs to take to with three buses and the subway to get to school. After going abroad to go to shaker high we went to another city for small subway connections to the trade was so fast we went to another city in 20 ....