Eric Schmidt on What's Ahead - Intro and Keynote

Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New America Foundation, and a member of President-Elect Barack Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board, addressed a packed auditorium at the Ronald Reagan Building on Tuesday, November 18th.

Schmidt provided insight into the junction of technology and government, stressing that solid infrastructure is the key to an efficient and effective government, and using the internet as the model for how government should approach the current fiscal crisis facing our nation and the world. He also pressed the need for open networks and systems as a foundation for innovation.

The Google CEO also emphasized that engagement is the fundamental component in finding solutions to our countrys current economic woes, and used President-elect Obamas addresses on YouTube as an example of the way government should enlist modernization and embrace the voices of all as it contemplates solving the financial and social ills of our society.

Schmidt concluded that while there is no silver bullet, but he remains optimistic in our countrys future and its prosperity.

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• Future

[Elin48]

hmmm,when one talks about education, why aren't teachers ever asked?

[mark7996]

I hope Mr.Schmidt gets some of his ideas through to the gov't, great ideas.

[prowsej]

Schmidt proposes a subsidy program. But the right-wing arguments about the government doing a poor job allocating subsidies and it being politically impossible to revoke them when they no longer make sense seem true. Much better would be an auctioned cap and trade system. This policy different is important.