Thank you so much for inviting us to be here today. You are such a role model. Thank you. So, carrollton, ohio could be any town in america. In carrollton, there is no wifi in the homes. Theres often no wifi at these schools. The county has been decimated by her when epidemic, but 40 girls twice a week meet in a local library to learn how to code. To get their shot at the middle class. Automation has transformed everything about the way we live and work. Jobs are not going to be done by machines and humans. They are going to be done by robots and computers. If we were honest, this has created a lot of pain for americans. A tremendousreated opportunity. There are 500,000 jobs that are open in computing and technology , and these are jobs that are great. They pay a great wage, 120 thousand dollars if you are a software programmer. The problem is too Many Americans do not have the skills to fill these jobs. Only 40,000 americans graduated in Computer Science to fill 500,000 jobs. This is
Thank you so much for inviting us to be here today. You are such a role model. Thank you. So, carrollton, ohio could be any town in america. In carrollton, there is no wifi in the homes. Theres often no wifi at these schools. The county has been decimated by her when epidemic, but 40 girls twice a week meet in a local library to learn how to code. To get their shot at the middle class. Automation has transformed everything about the way we live and work. Jobs are not going to be done by machines and humans. They are going to be done by robots and computers. If we were honest, this has created a lot of pain for americans. A tremendousreated opportunity. There are 500,000 jobs that are open in computing and technology , and these are jobs that are great. They pay a great wage, 120 thousand dollars if you are a software programmer. The problem is too Many Americans do not have the skills to fill these jobs. Only 40,000 americans graduated in Computer Science to fill 500,000 jobs. This is
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Good afternoon. Were going to go ahead and get started. We like to welcome you to the skeletons in the closet session. My name is jennifer im a professor at an apology here in san antonio and this is my colleague, lydia pine. We like to thank you for coming to the session and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library and the Southwest School of arts and crafts for opening up their abilities for this great event today. We are also supposed to encourage people to post any of your photos, tweets, put those up on social media and use the as a book festival. Idea have those to hand out so definitely stop by and pick up your where copy of the child from today. Absolutely. So let me introduce lith lidia pine shes in the culture she got undergraduate degree in anthropology from arizona state. Sorry. [laughter] and also received a ph. D. In history at asu as well. She has done archive work and southwest, africa, eat yoap why and uzbekistan and iran, and countrily living in austin where sh
And soviet premier gorbachev. This is an hour. Sitting on my left and speaking about this book. [indiscernible] you have worked for the New York Times the daily news. In america , and around the world. You have been in 85 countries. And you are also an author. You have written three books, and the last one is on the table. And now i let you discuss this reykjavik summit. [indiscernible] [applause] thank you very much for hosting this event this evening with the extraordinary man next to me, the author of a great book, reagan and gorbachev, the summit of 1986. As it happened, i was a reporter. Let me start off with a little personal anecdote. In january 1981, president reagan was about be sworn in as president for his first term. I had just left the New York Times and come to cbs as a correspondent. I was in washington dc. I was the lowest person on the totem pole. I had just arrived there, but cbs was a pool for that event, which means i have nothing to do the night before. The next da