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Good luck. Guest thank you. Next eric or nelson and andrew mcabee talk about the technical advancements taking over our lives and our economy and suggest ways to harness those advancements to benefit society. The conversatconversat ion is about one hour. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at Common Wealth club. Org. I am Andrew Leonard from salon. Com your moderator...

Kids. The affected members of 5 kids. Its a rounding error almost subsequently about the it not for these families. The reason im here is because i want to talk to you about not the benefits to these kids, but the benefits to the rest of the kids in the school. The way to really think about it is that this i talk program is doing the best to make the best the children can be, but its all the children and it instills a sense of empathy and i guess just an acceptance of differences. This is really...

Slowing up, so the Sheldon Adelson primary to me is some part of what we might call the political crystal ball. We are looking for signs, tea leaves to read. The most interesting part of that, and i look to my colleagues on the panel today who has worked for former Florida Governor jeb bush, is the fact that jeb bush went and participated. I think thats a very, very interesting indicator. As a lifelong democrat, i will tell you that the person that i believe has the strongest possibility to both...

And i said what if replace game designer with teacher or school. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This prog...

And other improvements. Well talk with the head of the San Francisco bicycle coalition. Plus, california takes the first step to grant special protection to the oceans top predator. Coming up next. Good evening, and welcome to this week in northern california. Im scott shafer. Well, we hoped wed be talking about this weeks super bowl victory parade for the San Francisco 49ers, but it didnt quite work out that way. The good news, well, we still have plenty to delve into. Joining me on our news pa...

Was able to call on. It had advanced almost not at all since exxon valdez and im actually delighted to hear from fran who knows more about this than i do about the intensive Research Effort that are going on. The National Research council released tomorrow and the agenda of four Additional Research that theyre apparently going to publish, which will lay out for all of us do things we need to learn and the things that need to be developed. I was amazed how little work was going on at the time ive...

And other improvements. Well talk with the head of the San Francisco bicycle coalition. Plus, california takes the first step to grant special protection to the oceans top predator. Coming up next. Good evening, and welcome to this week in northern california. Im scott shafer. Well, we hoped wed be talking about this weeks super bowl victory parade for the San Francisco 49ers, but it didnt quite work out that way. The good news, well, we still have plenty to delve into. Joining me on our news pa...

Excel in, and, you know, theres been a lot of job growth in the area, a lot of innovation. Some of the stocks are up, not all of them. Its a good time right now especially in an economy that has issued all over the place. One of the things that came out in the state of the valley report is San Francisco has grown as a tech hub and its now really san jose, San Francisco and everything in between is really the tech center. Talk more about that. How did that happen . Did it happen overnight . Well,...

Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose max levchin is here. He is a cofounder of paypal nld and one of the most creative entrepreneurs in all of Silicon Valley. In 1998 he started paypal, four years later the company was bought by ebay for 1. 5 billion. Levchin has since launched a variety of companies. He started the Customer Review site yelp of which he is chairman. In 2010 he sold his social Media Company slide to google for 1...

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