A good afternoon everybody welcome to politics and prose live at lunch bringing the programming during the lunchtime our i am the coordinator we thank you for joining us to celebrate the release of life violated any time you can click the link we will let you purchase a copy tonight you can ask the author a question by submitting it to the q a box at the bottom of your screen be sure to put your question into the q and a and not the chat to make sure we see it. On to our main event the neuroscientist New York Times bestselling Author National Nonprofit Institute serves as an adjunct professor best known for his work of Time Perception live wired from anesthesia to dreaming than those that revolutionize to discuss using echolocation the present and future of ai i am so excited to hear him talk today the floor is yours and i will be back to moderate. Thank you. Thats a great question to be here ive been here to politics and prose in the past sorry i couldnt be there this year im glad you
National Nonprofit Institute inserted adjunct professor at stanford university. Best known for his work on Time Perception brain plasticity and live wired his new book presents findings from his lab from dreaming to devices that revolutionize how we think about the senses. He will discuss bio hackers using echolocation and the present and future of ai. Im so excited to hear doctor eaglman talk today. Welcome, david. The floor is yours and i will be back in a little bit to moderate some q and a. Thank you. It is a great pleasure to be here. Ive been to politicsnd prose in person in the past and im soy i couldnt be the this year, but im pleased you can join me this way online today so id like to tell you a little biand a brief overvw about the main themes and ideas in the book and then were going to take questions. How many of you have ever seen a baby zebra get born so it can run with its little ls and it runs around the giraffes and dolphins born smming and how many have seen youight n
Host the communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We are going to show you some of the interviews were conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. And now joining us on the communicators is susan ness. Commissioner ness, what were some of issues you dealt with back in the 90s when you are an fcc commissioner . Guest peter, was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the length of the communications highways from analog to digital. So that was cable, broadcast, satellite. The satellites have been launched but with the service d not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards which is radio standard. My First Commission meeting we did band plan. It was an extraordinary time. And we were just given Auction Authority so we began the first auction at which point they actually used the hand placards to bid. So it was an exciting time to be there, plus on top of all that we im
By con batting and with words. I am mike nelson, im the guy you had to put up with during first panel. Fortunately we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you have heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Weve got miller saturday, people here one of its main emphases is to focus on studying the presidency indepth, historical depth, with objectivity, and other words we are all in the business of doing stuff that and editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing which is reacting to events on a day to day basis more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist, and where we all strived to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist as well as anybody whos ever done, it to provide comments, opinion, something to provoke discussion, rather than aspire to subtle discussion. The panel today, this afternoon, which will cover the president s from george bush i dont use the h. W. He was george bush when he
Federal communications commission. The lanes of the communications highway from analog to digital. That was cable, broadcast. Satellite. The satellites had been launched but the services had not yet begun. With the Digital Television standard, the radio standard. Meeting, itmission was an extraordinary time. We begin the first auction, at used handt they placards to bid. Implementedat, we this 1996 telecom act which dramatically changed the landscape by introducing in the video. Dramatically changed the landscape for broadcast. Widening the ability to consolidate broadcast properties. Looking back, did you get it right . Did the groundwork laid correctly . I think we did. And cspanwe did can appreciate this requirement for Childrens Television in broadcast. Some of it we got very right. Some of it, the marketplace said, we are not sure we need this anymore. The mission implemented the law. Issue with this telecom act isbasically congress basically settling battles that priorken place d