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[inaudible conversations] my name is brian dear and im on the stature of politics and prose. Like to thankk everyone for coming to the store. We have brian dear in his book the friendly orange glow the untold story of the before it turned over to the author himself i have a fewew housekeeping notes. Recording the presentation of our web site and it would be distracting. Speaking of the recording everyones questions during the questionandanswer portion so please come to the mic right over here on my last for tonight. Also if i could ask everyone to pull the pictures when the event is over that ...

Who is with us today, mayor . [applause] thank you, maryland drew, president landrieu. For the opportunity to lead our new Automation Task force and for your leadership of the conference. We had a great meeting with the task force on automation, talking about different ways that automation will change our work as employers and enterprises, as pollymaking bodies, as economies and as communities. Were looking forward to convening again as a task force this spring and would welcome any mayors or partners who would like to be part of that conversation but before we do that we have an opportunity r...

[music] [music] you are watching booktv on cspan2. With top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, Television Series readers. Coming up next, books about digital technology. Brian dear writes about Online Education in the preinternet age in his book, the friendly orange glow. Then, the history of Silicon Valley with the author the no one calls discussing the Tech Industry ethics. Brian dear is the author of the friendly orange glow. Computer systems developed in 1960 to provide Online Education. He talked about his book and the era of computer learning at a bookstore in washington...

Thank you so much for joining us today. As mayors, we often say that our number one issue is jobs. Jobs, jobs, and jobs. Creating jobs. Supporting entrepreneurship and making sure the Jobs Available line up with the skills of our work force. So the entirety of this morning is going to be about what we as mayors can do and can be doing to support job creation and entrepreneurship in our communities, and for this session, we are going to begin with a conversation about the future of work and the dramatic changes in the ways that our residents relate to their jobs and to their physical work space...

Thank you for the opportunity to elude our new Automation Task force for the conference. Meetinghad a great talking about the different ways that automation will change our work as employers and enterprises, as policymaking bodies, as economies, and as communities. We are looking forward to convening again as a task force this spring and would welcome any mayors or partners who would like to be part of the conversation. Before we do that, we have an opportunity right here to talk about one of the most interesting and important questions not unrelated to automation that affects our work is mayo...