nbc bay area, we investigate. this week we take you inside berkeley's sky deck, a business accelerator responsible for companies like lime. they're making a lot of green for cal. net gear's ceo patrick lowe sits down to talk about the house of the future and an expert in education wonders why college teaches our children things they don't need to know. our reporters this week, jennifer elias from the business journal and mark million, of bloomberg, this week on "press:here." good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. i had to take apart the family room the other day in preparation for a little home remodeling and started unhooking

our home internet router and i was struck how many things use wi-fi. computers, two laptops, one desktop, but two ipads, three iphones, two televisions, we have a roku and apple tv and xbox, security cameras, we have the home security system, the solar panels and alexa and a google home. that is in the laundry room. all of them using wi-fi, all running through a net gear router. i thought, let's talk to the founder of netgear, patrick lowe, what may be the most important thing in the house. patrick is ceo of netgear and an electrical engineer joined by jennifer elias of the business journal, mark million of bloomberg. it is -- have i missed anything? i think i listed every wi-fi. what else hooks to wi-fi that you're aware of? >> ip camera. >> door locks at this point. i think there are a couple ovens these days as well. tell me about the demand for

bandwidth? have we got enough room in the wi-fi router that i have at home for everybody to be doing all of those things at once? if so, how long? >> well, basically, right now, i mean you mentioned most of the gadgets that people have and we see that increasing all the time. these gadgets, one of the most important things, one demands bandwidth and number two placed around the house and actually at the edges of the back and front, the coverage is very important. the old way of just having one single router in the middle of the house or corner of the house is not going to cut it anymore. you need mashed wi-fi, you get multiple, surround the house, so every device you mentioned you have the best bandwidth, the best input and best wi-fi coverage. >> how do you convince people to go out and say as you did in the past, just buy this one device, go buy three or five depending on how big your home is. people don't seem to realize that this is the source of their

frustrations when they can't get on-line. >> my kids, the minute wi-fi goes down, the second it goes down, you hear a moan throughout the house. air conditioning can go off that's fine, but wi-fi, sorry to interrupt. >> actually thanks to all the content providers, all right, they're basically prompting everybody in the house to demand how come there's not enough wi-fi signal here the kids are playing games not only in the game room and family room but often in the bedroom and people are watching videos, you know, somebody jokes even in the bathroom. >> yeah. the phones go in the bathroom, yes. >> when i walk from the living room into my bedroom, then my video streaming gets interrupted. all of a sudden you look for answers and search the internet, the answers are simple. match wi-fi. >> you came out with a home speaker system. can you tell us why you came out with that?

>> yes. you know, i think the best thing to talk about it when you need to put mash wi-fi into the house, the mash wi-fi, what we call satellites around the house, is out in the open, no more hiding in the closet or underneath the table anymore, so they're visibility. and when they're visible, you would like to make it look nice as well as, you know, if you could double up, that would be good because we find more and more people using smart speakers and the reason they use smart speakers actually more than asking today's weather, how is the traffic. actually the number one popular application is to play music. >> right. >> so you could have a nice looking wi-fi satellite that could play music as well. >> so the audio is so important to music and you have huge incumbents like apple and all been creating their own, what

they buy netgear. >> two boxes. all right. one you get that box doing the wi-fi coverage for the house and you mentioned this way, so many competition, not only do we have the best wi-fi, the best audio and that's why we partnered with probably the number one brand in home audio systems and their audio engineers tested, of course, the speakers versus everything else on the market and on a scale of one to five, our audio quality is rated five and everybody else is four, three, two, even one. >> what you are talking about is the orbi, this device that is a speaker, like a google home or a sonos and has alexa in it as well and what the wi-fi mesh that you were talking about. it's a sonos and ero and an alexa all smashed into one

device. >> correct. >> so alexa is the center of this in the sense that she's going to be able to interact with you. it does strike me that my door lock doesn't talk to my thermostat, even though both are talking to my wi-fi router, right. i have a couple of lights that are on wi-fi reuteouters but th don't realize i'm not home because my security system doesn't talk to them. can you envision a fewer in which they all interact with each other and strikes me that alexa amazon would be the place for all of this to happen? >> well, you are absolutely right. what we see the trend going forward in the smart home environment is voice control, all right. people will not put an app on the phone -- >> i think that is so dumb. i'm glad to hear an electrical engineer say the same thing. the idea of getting my phone out, putting my thumb on it, and then pulling up the app to turn out that light is ridiculous. >> i know.

it's not only turning off the light but just turning on the alarm system or turning it off or all that. so we believe voice control will be the way to go. not only us, i think alexa and apple and google and a whole bunch of other people are looking at that too. i think they're all providing that voice platform to be the control center of the smart home devices and that's why we are seeing them competing against each other to try to get as many partners on board to use the system as much as possible. >> do you think you'll implement in addition to alexa like google's assistant or even siri? >> oh, absolutely. we have been known to be what we call, you know, the switzerland of technology. for example, our ip cameras we

>> yeah. so therein lies the difficulty of a start-up becoming great company.

we deal at the very early stage. a young team has a product, maybe a few customers, and our challenge is to find those people that we believe have what it takes to not just build a new product, start-up, but turn night an apple or a tesla or a lime bike. >> caroline is with berkeley sky deck and is looking for people to give $100,000 to, so you can find her on google. thank you for being with us. >> happy to be here. >> up next on "press:here," an expert in education say we're paying a fortune to kids in college that they don't need to know.

"press:here" is available as a podcast on itunes. >> welcome back. in my first job as a reporter fresh out of school i had trouble using the office phone because nobody ever told me you got to dial 9 to get an outside line. i had a brand new college degree and could tell you about shakespeare but couldn't make a phone call. a silly example of a bigger problem. hiring managers complain we aren't teaching college students the skills they need. i'm guessing you haven't used any trigonometry lately and film criticism courses don't help you in the corporate world. david is a long-time student of education and launched an on-line university and ed tech start-up and now the chairman at an on-line training company called degree. he's also the author of the

expertise economy, how the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete and succeed, in book stores in mid-september. thanks for being with us this morning. what does industry want kids to learn? i'm guessing it's not latin? >> no. i think there's always been a little bit of a gap with what the purpose of higher education is and what the market needs from its graduates and incoming workers. that's widening. as the rate of acceleration is picking up in technology for these companies that gap is getting wider and wider. so it's really something we have to start talking about. >> get critical thinking out of the way. we all agree it's important, et cetera, but so many things that young people are just not prepared for. is there one example of that? >> well, i think it's if you look at the model, we really have optimized higher education

to get as many people in, skilled up educated and graduating and in doing so we've turned night something of a conveyor belt. we are trying to make it as efficient and standardized as possible. at the same time, our careers are getting more fambiguous and changing at a faster pace. this education system that has been standardizing while the world has been shifting. i think that's one of the big sort of system level issues that we have. the other is the feast and famine model. we really when the college degree was invented, the average life span was something in the 40s. you liveden to -- lived to be 45 years on average. going to university for a couple years and applying that over a lifetime was a more rationale thing to do. but in today's world this model where we go learn and then we're expected to take that and apply

it for the rest of our lives it's no longer sufficient. we all have to start thinking about what does it look like, what does it mean to be a life-long learner and the role of the university in that. >> what are some examples of how to equip people for companies? >> sure. so as a company, degree works with typically large employers. from, you know, boeing and nasa's jpl to intel and cisco to citibank and bank of america these large, you know, fortune 200 type employers, really what we're seeing is a shift where education, information, skilling, used to be inaccessible. information used to be hard to find and get. so that was a world where universitieses had a very important role of centralizing and making that accessible. as we got into our careers so did employers.

they were responsible for skilling you up for the job you were in. now the world has shifted and now information is abundant and now people are learning increasingly on their own and that is part of the struggle that employers are having is where they went from being central in the role of sort of dictating what skills, who needed what skills when, to the world where chaos of everyone needs to be adaptable all the time and can't keep up with it and all the resources how do we do it. it's a great sort of problem for technology to help with because it can help personalize and scale. >> is it a problem? is it a problem that people are learning on their own rather than being told what to study? >> absolutely. that's fabulous. i am a big believer we need to be continuous agile, life-long learners. the problem is, as society, as companies, as the systems are adapting to sort of that new

reality, what is their role to play in it. >> a lot of these companies are in the valley, we know about the talent shortage going on with the tech talent here, you know, how is this approach being taken outside of the silicon valley sflefl. >> -- level? >> sure. most of the companies are global and most are also not headquartered necessarily here in the valley. i think this is a uniform problem that employers are having to ask. you gave illusion to the skills gap and hiring, the talent and that shortage. you know, right now if you were to ask any ceo, valley or not, what skills does the organization have and what skills does your organization need, they would be hard pressed to be able to answer that question in a very codified way. it goes -- it reveals the fact that we haven't had a language

for skills. if you ask someone, tell me about your education, you almost certainly are going to get an answer of where they went to university. you know, which is crazy. it really is crazy. it's that answer, that counter response is crazy. >> gives you nothing. if i were to ask you, tell me about your health and you said i ran a marathon 30 years ago, that's crazy but that's how we will answer for our education. >> i have about 30 seconds left and want to squeeze in one question and i started this by downplaying the importance of college. what was the college course that you liked bests that actually turned out to be completely irrelevant to your life? >> advanced scuba diving. >> excellent. david blake with degreed. we appreciate you being with us this morning. "press:here" will be back in just a moment. how well do you kw california )s labor laws? our consumer team tests your knowledge! plus- we )ll be all over any breaking news that happens

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