Get my steps in. Thank you guys also much for coming. Thank you for coming to wasnt center through the snow, sleet, whenever it is doing and on star wars day. Really appreciate it. I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming you to the Woodrow Wilson center and a lunch of the book designing reality. Launch. My name is Elizabeth Newbury and of the director for the Gains Initiative here at the Wilson Center in the science and Technology Innovation program. This means when im not introducing world famous authors i Transit Research ideas into one most dynamic mediums we have public engagement, gains. As alan might agree, games are one of the best tools we have for translating complexity into an accessible, and there i say fun, format. Translating complexity something we specialize in here for the science and Technology Innovation program from diy bio labs and makers basis for help innovation to science fighting zika to cybersecurity laws for congressional staff. We specialize in being the bri
When we were writing the book, we really tried to find the first social scientist and policymakers that recognized that technology was doubling in performance and it was decades after the article. The social sciences were really reactive to the science and, you know, as a result, next slide, we are still playing catchup. So, you know, neil says anybody can make almost anything but right now 4 billion people are not connected, you cant have a digital fabrication if youre not digit le connected. Before we get to a fab divide which would hold on one second. Access is not binary, its not like you have it or you dont. One investors is Sesame Workshop and they do great job on inclusion and talk about continuation of access. Billions of people have a feature phone, thats all. Try rating a document, fabrication work flows on a future phone, so not even if you have access, you may have minimal access, cost is an issue so about 2 billion people have very limited access. So already most of the pl
One official says the world has never been so close to a deal. Hidden hazard. I cant see people moving in while all of this toxic land that surrounds them, theyre still working on cleaning up. The concerns about what lurks in the soil of a former navy probability and a city desperate for Affordable Housing. Heritage or hate. On this july 4 weekend the struggle intensifies over lasting symbols of the civil war. We begin with that crucial weekend for greece and europe, deciding whether to accept or reject the bailout deem from the countrys creditors. On the last day of campaigning tens of thousands of people attending dual rallies in athens. Prime minister alexis appealing to greeks to reject the plan. A 30 distance away, another large rally urging people there to vote yes. In between both rallies police in riot gear and there were clashes on both sides. We have more from athens. The word means no, the no campaign gathered in front of parliament backed by the government wants a future in
Animal and the tiny dog that came to the rescue. Good friday morning. Im reena ninan. And im phillip mena. We begin with the race to 2016 and new challenges for important fromrunner hillary clinton. Al gore said to be talking about the joining the race. Kenneth moton with the latest. Reporter could al gore be making another run for the white house . Onetime highranking political adviser to the former Vice President said a group of friends and aides are having conversations about gore 2016. Overnight, a spokeswoman said a newspaper, hes not exploring a run. This comes as current Vice President joe biden spends time this month. Meanwhile gop frontrunner donald trump is taking a onetwo punch from rand paul in a new ad claiming trump is not really a republican. The billionaire is leading major polls and hes hiring. More staffers, that is in iowa, new hampshire, South Carolina and maybe in nevada. Trump is also making more headlines for a controversial video featuring one of the vicious kil
And new this morning. Could fresh prince be getting a major reboot . Turning tv upsidedown, will smith reportedly heading back to bel air. That will wake you up in the morning. Go, ginger. I was singing every lyric right there. Those are sort of involuntary movements, i think. Happy friday as we say good morning, america. David, we made it. Almost. Thank you, thank you. This team is incredible, though, makes it fun. I said this week, you make it fun to get up at 4 00 a. M. I know. All of the way through to jeopardy. Thats right. Is it on yet . We have a lot of news to get to this friday morning. It is an historic day. The secretary of state arriving in cuba. Well have more on that just ahead. Big history to be made. Incredible new images of the moment that explosions rocked that major city in china. And this morning, explosions still happening at that site. Well have the latest in a moment on the search for survivors. First, we want to get to those new reports about a godzilla el nino