This is just the first baby step in that direction. Were animating the inanimate world around us. If you project forward a little bit, its mind boggling to even thing what will be possible in a short period of time. And its not surprising that this is creating a certain angst about technology. The second revolution thats occurring, every bit as profound, which is made possible by this first revolution, is the biotech revolution. And whats happening there is that life through us, through our cerebral cortises, through all of our devices is learning the processes, understanding at an intimate level the processes of life at such a level that we can begin to intervene and tweak them and adjust them in ways and thats something thats a central part of all the possibilities of medicine and biology and Life Sciences that are arriving today. Its a step that nothing will ever be the same. Its like life is beginning to control its own future and were starting to alter the world around us to where
But the average boilermaker we now can say with some authority from the surveys we were just recently taken is much more likely to have a job, to have a goodpaying job, to have a job they are fulfilled in and to be thriving in multiple domains of wellbeing than those who went to other schools. Its our job to push all those numbers further up for the generations ahead. Well leave it there. Mitch daniels, Purdue University president and former governor of indiana. Thanks for being with us this morning. Enjoyed it, thank you. On the next washington journal, diane okay lee of the National Institute on Retirement Security discusses how prepared americans are to potentially outlive their retirement savings. After that, Mickey Mcintyre of compassion and choices looks at laws in place across the u. S. This comes in light of a 29yearolds decision to end her life following a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. Plus your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal is live at 7 0
Next a conversation with Purdue University president and former indiana governor mitch daniels. Thats followed by a debate on geneticallymodified foods and a look at how bees are being used today by the military. Next a conversation with Purdue University president mitch daniels. The fomer indiana governor and budget director spoke with viewers as part of our special series on universities in the big ten conference. This is about 45 minutes. Sgl this week we continue our series with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning the cspan bus is on the campus of Purdue University and West Lafayette, louisiana. Now joining us from purdues campus is its president mitch daniels, the former governor of indiana. Thanks for being with us this morning. Welcome to purdue. Thank you so much. Sorry i cant be there in person. Want to start out rather broadly and just ask you to name, what do you think the greatest challen challenges are facing Higher
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