Problems that may only be applicable or of interest 20 of individuals. 20 of households. Not everybody does yoga or, you know, we saw propane tanks that were, you could connect to the internet so you could know by looking at your smartphone how full they were. And thats probably not applicable to everyone because not everyone uses a gas grill. We start to move into these smaller niche markets. Actually, i have the opposite response. I think what because the cost of experimentation is so low in the market 9utn, what you actua see is sort of 1,000 experiments, 999 of them fail utterly, but when consumers find the right one, got the thing right. We talked in our book about the game draw something. And how went from zero to millions of users in a matter of days. For whatever reason they got it right, and what happens now, consumers essentially tell each other. It not, you know, its not broadcast marketing like it used to be. Its social media based. They say, all right. This is the one that
Weve given you all a copy of my newest book which was just published yesterday digital dysny which looks at the history of how we ended up here but also paints a picture of what the implications are when everything becomes digital, becomes connected, becomes sensorized and we see a world that impacts every experience we have. Well get into that as well. Larry, let me turn it to you and perhaps you can spend a minute to introduce yourself, robin as well . Sure. Thank you and thank you to the Churchill Club and center and congratulations on your book. I had the privilege of reading it in manuscript so i can say with complete confidence it will be a terrific success. I think it encapsulates a lot of the same kinds of technologies that ive been looking gnat the research ive been doing and that was the basis of our book last year big bang disruption, and it es more of the same. We talked about that this year because we were there, my feet still hurt. But i think one of the big themes i want
Envisioned role of three hallowed parts of our educational system, high school, college, and advanced study on two metrics . One is, the protection of students. Protection of students from adverse things that might happen to them, and also on the metric of the breadth of study, broad versus specialized and narrow. I see high school in a different way and college as a different one and then also different is advanced study. But i welcome your views. I think youre right. In years past, we have relied on high school to provide a solid general foundation for exposures to foundational areas, such as math and science and nurture. And for better or worse, that has not been the case so that colleges and universities do find themselves having to provide that foundations that some high schools have not been able to do. Today, we have what i like to call the anything goes curriculum. You have the influence of postmodernism, which has affected a lot of things. Since world war ii, our universities
And we will end with a note of humility and thank the panel. They have been [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] clerks Gina Mccarthy framed the of eight to the groundlevel ozone standard as an imperative, bringing agency rules in line with the latest science with the agencys most burnable populations. Though law based on review of that science and based on the independent Science Advisors, experts the epa science , and my judgment as the epa administrator, i am proposing to strengthen the standards to within a range of 65 to 75 parts per billion to try to protect americans health. I am taking comment on setting the level to below 60 parts per billion. I am very mindful of the fact that my Science Advisors have indicated that it should be on the table as well as folks here at epa who have looked at this issue. So 60 is
The time we act first and study later. We have been engaged in this war against extremism for the last 13 years. We have no strategy. Almost everything was being handled by the military. And a lot of it was off the cuff. A lot of it was knee jerk. There were a lot of problems on who was responsible and who was accountable. So for the first time when i took over when this government took office i think one of the first imperatives for all of us was to have a strategy, have a policy. So that is the reason we worked almost six months. We worked with the military, we worked with the provinces, the provinces are a very, very important part in the whole organizational setup, and it was difficult. It was easier working with the military. It was more difficult working with my fellow colleagues in the provinces. We worked with a whole lot of experts, with the media, National Security experts, and it took us almost seven to eight months to come up with this policy. Part of it was implemented. Yo