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Fabrication technologies will transform technology and be a company. Is an hour and 40 minutes. Thank you guys all so much for coming. Thank you for coming to the Wilson Center. And on star wars day. Really appreciate it. I have the distinct pleasure of welcoming you to Woodrow Wilson center and the launch the book designing reality. My name is Elizabeth Newbury and im the director here at the Wilson Center in science and technology and Innovation Programs. When im not introducing worldfamous authors i translate Research Ideas through one of the most dynamic and meet mediums we have for engage...

Ironies. I do remember, as a reporter, when the bush 41 administration came in, it was a little scratchy with the Reagan Administration going out. I do recall talk of pause, the secretary of state wanted to make sure he was not captured by the building and that kind of thing. When four years later the Clinton Administration came in, all i can say is bill clinton picked up exactly where bush 41 was. It was an extraordinary transition. Well before inauguration, a number of people, including a couple you have heard from, and are going to hear from during the rest of the conference were calling th...

[inaudible conversations] morning everybody. Let me start, if i can with a very personal note, and that is i have known her for a little more than a quartercentury which means we got together in what was another millennium and it sure feels like another millennium. She was an extraordinary friend and colleague and i, along with my colleagues here at brookings and form policy are so glad that once again she will be colleagu colleague. I think the timing of this part of the program fits very well with the panel that we have just heard from. Perhaps victoria, you were there for close to half of i...

And fancy working in an enormous Train Station . I dont know if youve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. This week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their president ial election. And curiously, from a Technology Point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. In the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. But not this time. For both the president ial elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. And t...

On richmond with professor Jack Trammell and his book, the Fourth Branch of government we the people, talk about the publics participation in government. The Fourth Branch of government was actually a contested term. Some people refer to it as the media but my coauthor and i would like to coopt that and reinvent the Fourth Branch to be the power of the people. We believe america has gone to the point where our democracy needs to grow some to and the Fourth Branch is the peoples branch. It is the peoples participation in our government and democracy. I think the premise for what he wanted to pu...