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They outline what it takes for a city to be future ready. This is an hour and 25 minutes. All right, good afternoon and thank you for joining us for the event, local economies of the future and how cities thrive in the digital age. I am the Vice President of Global Innovation policy at the Information Technology and foundation. I will be your moderator. I should mention the twitter handle for this event is futurecities. Have become key economic units driving the modern global economy. It is expected that cities will account for 90 of global population growth in this century. The advent of many...

Vigilance of the American Public. Host when you say managed and contained what do you mean . Guest if we had this conversation after 9 11 and the anthrax attacks and i predicted 45 americans would be killed by jihadi terrorist that would have seemed like an optimistic projection. But that is what happened and each of the 45 deaths is a tragedy but they are not on the scale of 9 11 1 or even the pars attack. You will not hear politicians saying we managed and contained the threat. You will not hear them say by the law of averages someone is going to get one through because both of those stateme...

His talk today will be on what he calls the law of amplification. So its a very interesting talk because, you know, here at mit our motto is let us build technology and, obviously, that will solve all of the worlds problems. [laughter] and its kind of a heresy in some way to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing social change from the cult of technology, something thats very interesting because it provokes, you know, important conversations. Technology is important, but its also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how do we design the te...

Exchange. Were watching ecb president mario draghi here on Worldwide Exchange. Lets listen back in. The final figure was actually lower. And this certainly contributed to restoring confidence in the markets. At that point, when the confidence was just returning, the ecb was of the view that he would have been highly disru disruptive to have 4 billion after it had already before. It would have been highly disruptive. In other words, the cost would not offset the benefits. This was the view. And later on in 2011, this view was confirmed and the foreseeable was about 2 billion. Also because they ...

We continue to watch for amtrak indications that core alqaeda is, in fact, engaged in plotting activities aimed and i can someone. Bubeyond human weve also been watching alqaedas Affiliate Networks and individuals and syria who may be looking to get extra operations against the west a potentially the homeland. But we got some very public successes in terms of a disrupting some individuals involved in plotting from syria, there is cody ford be done in the work continues. Or third area of or third area, last area i will mention is the growing use of simple opportunity to attacks by homegrown vio...