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Cspans washington journal recently conducted interviews with president s at universities in the big ten conference. Challenges facing Higher Education. Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say a...

It is interesting. The software forces you to be positive and share something that deserves a thumbsup, a like. Host as a College Professor here at pepperdine, is technology interfering with teaching . Guest every teacher, i think, wrestles with what to do with technology in the classrooms. I mean, the students, if they are taking notes on their laptops they are also getting updates, that twitter feed, you know, so you are constantly competing for their attention. Even in an exam situation, the possibility of students, you know, accessing information via their cell phone underneath a desk is h...

It is not 20 years away. 510 years. Already being tested in california. The question is, if we are headed toward near zero marginal cost labor what does it say about the prediction . What do we do . How do we define the human journey . Our people employed in this collaborative, and, in a zero Marginal Cost Society . In the short run i think there is a silver lining. I think that we have a 30year and tear interim where we will have to a bill that the internet of things. That is going to be laborintensive. We have to convert our entire energy use from fossil fuel and nuclear to Renewable Energy....

To god. Host and you have a quotation from kevin kelly, we tend to see got it reflected in nature, but technology is the better mirror of god and next to that is a picture of jesus. [laughter] host with a laptop. Guest he has a whole world in his hands. Kevin kelly is such a fascinating character. He was one of the early editors of wired magazine. And he also comes from a position of faith. And so i think he has looked at technology and how we organize our lives, how engineers structure things as a way of may be talking about the ways in which god might be the original technologist. And when w...

To competeis it like for these federal dollars for contract echo what is the process like as well . Guest these are not contracts per se. Host grants. Guest these are grants by research initiators. And as you know, after the funding wrapup in the 1990 through 2000 decade, funding has been decreasing. The competition for those dollars is very intense among investigators. Only the very best Research Projects are funded. And often, not at the level we would like to see. Im not so concerned about our investigators per se. Concerned with the Research Capacity of this nation. We have built a wonderf...