Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
A life full of work, they have opportunity to engage in that. The 50 plus population in this country is growing rapidly and projected to increase by 21 by 2020 and those over 65 growing by 33 by 2020 which is just a minute away. All the communities of this nation need to go to work can find ways to keep this large and vibrant growing 50 plus population not only engaged but also connected. We would like to talk about the technology infrastructure, broadband, implications and impact to this population. Lifelong learning opportunities are very high on the list of the 50 plus population and they get an opportunity to study local institutions of Higher Education and intergenerational access to Public Schools and community facilities. Access to Public Services offered by federal, state and local governments, information on critical lifesaving and like enhancing benefits are online now. And those populations, those adults who have no access or who have limited access really value broadband an
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