i'm bob rubin. and on behalf of my colleagues at the hammond project, i look forward to talking about the machine age. let me say a few words first about the hamilton project. we started about nine years ago. we are not an institution, but rather, we're a small partnership of policy experts former government officials, academics and business leaders organized as an advisory council. and our architecture is totally open. when we have policy proposals, they are commissioned from leading experts around the country and then they are peer reviewed rather than coming from internal staff. our purpose is to support policy development and to support serius as a purpose of discussion debate and dialogue. we believe that is particularly important at this time when, unfortunately, the public policy debate has become so affected by policies, by idealogy and by opinion that is not grounded in facts or an objective analysis. the hamilton project works in partnership with the brookings institution. brookings contri

rubin, former secretary and others in the morning panel. >> okay, i think we'll get underway. >> good morning. i'm bob reuben. and on behalf of my colleagues at the hamilton project, i welcome you to today's discussion of the future of work in the machine age. before i lay out some of the issues we'll be discussing, let me say a few words about the hamilton project. we started about nine years ago. we are not an institution but rather, we are partnerships, small partnership of policy experts, former government official academics and business leaders organized as an advisory counsel and our architecture is open. when we have policy proposals, they are commissioned from leading experts then peer reviewed rather than coming in internal staff. our purpose is to support policy development and support serious purposes about policy, discussion, debate and dialogue. we believe that that is particularly important at this time when unfortunately, the public policy debate in the united states has become so affected by politics, by ideology and by opinion that's not grounded in facts or an objective analysis. the hamilto