eric schmidt had been some interesting papers. he had been making the point that so much of the tech industry is project-based learning. google gives people time off to do what they want. they give them time to explore and hang out with other people, outside of the framework of this more structured enterprise. burning man, from the very beginning is project-based learning. it attracts people from every demographic that you can think of, every category. so you have to, potentially, encyclopedic knowledge assembled at this place. and the natural way to learn is project-based. scholarship is fine, academic models can be useful for certain things, but human beings tend to learn by engaging in project- based learning. if you look at the desert -- well, here is an example. i was on a tour for the black rock arts foundation. we went to various studios around the area where artwork was getting ready for la playa. all of the big ones involving armies of people with the various skills. it takes her attacker, a traditional art, overlapping f

eric schmidt, google's ceo, who brin and page hired in 2001 to be the resident grown-up, says that thepool of potential advertisers is almost limitless. >> and there's a lot of evidence that the companies of which google is a member are enabling a new kind of commerce between very small communities--people who can find each other--for whom the traditional advertising mechanisms, whether it's television advertising or radio, do not serve. >> the business world is just beginning to grasp the potential. >> and google should be careful, because there are some other companies that have it in their sights, such as microsoft. >> and that's a big deal when microsoft comes after you. >> it is, indeed. >> bill gates has admitted that, "google kicked our butt in internet search." bill gates doesn't like to have his butt kicked, so he just launched a prototype of microsoft search engine. bill gates breathing down your necks. do you feel this? do you feel a pressure? >> we do not today. it's perfectly possible that the current competitors can all compete and coexist actually quite well at least for

head christine legarde billionaire fund manager george soros google's eric schmidt and of course head of the c b mario draghi will be in attendance so now what about everyone else the concern is decisions are being made that could affect their lives maybe in a bad way but definitely without their say. and lauren is there to see what's really going on. all right i'm here i've made it to davos i'm at the world economic forum my first time i'm not alone though turns out morgan stanley's c.e.o. says first time which shows the caliber of the people that are here ok these are much of the corporate elite much of the global elite when it comes to wealth power all of that so they're all gathered here the question is what is davos man got on his agenda this year now of course the unofficial business is what davos has really become known for in many respects that's what you hear about that makes it worth all of the money that some of these corporations shell out to be here is the networking and the deals that are done in private parties you know off the record in hallways and lobbies so this is

steve jobs, to google executive eric schmidt, about google's attempt to hire away an apple engineer.right, "i would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this." google's response, the recruiter would be fired. "please extend my apologies as appropriate to steve jobs" the google e-mail read. >> these were agreements that were hatched and implemented, spread and concealed at the highest levels of these companies. >> reporter: another document, he says, reveals that some executives felt uncomfortable with any arrangement. in an e-mail addressed to steve jobs from the then-c.e.o. of palm read, "your proposal that we agree that neither couple will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong. it's likely illegal." all the companies insist that the case should be dismissed and argue any allegations of some grand conspiracy are implausible at best. but if the case does gain class action status, lawyers say damages would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. lee cow an, cbs news, los angeles. >> to syria now, the arab lea

. >> eric schmidt spent eight years working for dick gephardt. >> it will be incumbent on the presidentere are two philosophies. the flip side has the president talk about what he has done to defend that and describe what the alternative course is. >> the question is not whether or not people are hurting. the debate we need to have in this election is where do we go from here? >> newt gingrich has a long way to go to win his party's nomination, but the victory speech in south carolina suggests he, too, has given thought to a choice election. >> the america, declaration of independence, america of sal alinsky. >> first, the former house speaker faces fears in the g.o.p. if he were to become the nominee he will also with the complicated personal past become the issue. and let obama off the hook. >> he would love for it to be against the opponent that 99% of america have a formed opinion about. then he gets to have it be a choice and not a ref rep dumb on him. >> tab choice election strategy carries risks for president obama. george w. bush after all, won re-election with the slimmest popu

most beautiful, brand new college campus up in northern california, and it's just -- the guy -- eric schmidt just want people to work and never, ever leave. so we have everything here." there was like food everywhere. free food everywhere. bikes. you can ride bikes. you could play beach volleyball. they have a band every single afternoon come and play. and -- i think this would be the most awesome place -- >> jimmy: i love this. >> if i worked there, i would be like -- they would be like, "um, we're noticing that you're only playing beach volleyball." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "you're not doing your job at all." >> i said that. "do you ever have anyone who's just like going for a swim?" he's like, "no, we have very elaborate ways of measuring people's productivity." i was like, "oh. google." >> jimmy: serious. >> google. >> jimmy: mm google, yes. [ laughter ] >> it's pretty rad. >> jimmy: "30 rock," season finale. >> yeah. >> jimmy: tonight. >> it was tonight. >> jimmy: yeah. >> how did it go? >> jimmy: -- enjoy it. [ laughter ] we don't know. hope everyone enjoyed it. 100 shows. >> 100 shows.

interesting, paul, i talked to eric schmidt at headquarters and asked him about his policy on trackingnal information. this was just about a month ago. here is what he said. >> our strategy is to make sure anything we know about you, you opt in. so if there's information about your location, you choose to share that. >> my understanding is there is no opting. >> you should have been accompanied by your lawyer on that little tour because you know, they've changed their policy completely. you have to opt out in order to evade these collection of this material and the only thing that's voluntary about google is signing up in the first place. once you're into their system, they collect so much information about you it's really staggering. i think the public would be shocked to know. >> how does this work though from the perspective of our rights. what is the difference between opting in and out? everybody wants opt out, like, hey, when i go oin and order from a catalog, i have to uncheck the box that says i'm going to get more e-mails. isn't this essentially the same thing? >> it's similar

i had a chance to chat with eric schmidt. he said humans shouldn't remember anything.t's for computers. people actually use gps to get to the grocery store in their

i had a chance to chat with eric schmidt. he said humans shouldn't remember anything

interesting, paul, i talked to eric schmidt at headquarters and asked him about his policy on tracking personal information. this was just about a month ago. here is what he said. >> our strategy is to make sure anything we know about you, you opt in. so if there's information about your location, you choose to share that. >> my understanding is there is no opting. >> you should have been accompanied by your lawyer on that little tour because you know, they've changed their policy completely. you have to opt out in order to evade these collection of this material and the only thing that's voluntary about google is signing up in the first place. once you're into their system, they collect so much information about you it's really staggering. i think the public would be shocked to know. >> how does this work though from the perspective of our rights. what is the difference between opting in and out? everybody wants opt out, like, hey, when i go oin and order from a catalog, i have to uncheck the box that says i'm going to get more e-mails. isn't this essentially the same thing? >> it's s

i had a chance to chat with eric schmidt. he said humans shouldn't remember anything.t's for computers.

recently i got the opportunity to chat with eric schmidt of google. he told me humans shouldn't

i had a chance to chat with eric schmidt. he said humans shouldn't remember anything.t's for computers. people actually use gps to get to the grocery store in their hometown. i wonder if we're giving up how we navigate to life to computers.

recently i got the opportunity to chat with eric schmidt of google. he told me humans shouldn't have to remember anything. that's for computers. maybe he's right. just because something is right or easy doesn't mean it is fun. people use gps to get to the grocery store in their home town. i wonder if we're giving up our mind to navigate to computers and whether we're letting our mind goes to mush. destination suggestions welcome via @erinburnett on twitter. >>> erin, thanks very much. good evening, everyone. we're live from a very chilly night here in des moines, iowa. welcome to this edition of "360." the eve of election 2012. the first of the caucuses here. it starts being hypothetical and starts to count. republicans will choose candidates after a campaign where a few of them that you see here and a few you don't may soon become the front-runner. after tomorrow night that could change. some of these boxes may soon be empty. politico's roger simon said the best, iowa caucuses don't pick winners, they pick losers. they could continue on from here eve

virgin's tycoon, richard branson, director james cameron, google's executive chairman eric schmidt and the mix with a submersible. >> something as exciting and as exploratory and new is going to the deepest part of the ocean will capture people's imagination. >> on our triton test dive, we go as far as 500 feet down. look at all of these colors. we're gliding through another world. it's an extraordinary taste of what's next to come for submarine exploration. >> we want to build a commercial and viable vehicle. we want to allow scientists, tourists, exploration geologists and geophysicists, whoever wants to go to the deep ocean, we want to be able to take them. >> triton is already working on their next submarine. it will be tested in two to three years and will descend to the ocean's deepest point in less than an hour and a half. the estimated cost? $15 million. >> you'll be doing this again? >> i hope so. you should come. >> i would love. i'm so engineerous. thank you for your reporting on this. >>> and still ahead, today's style, how you can dress to look ten pounds thinner. but firs

the reporters and i are, tom shank and eric schmidt, we all worked on the story, indications were givenhrough swiss. it was something else. and it comes at a time, of course, when there's enormous tension over the strait. we have the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey that iran has the capability of closing the strait if it goes that far. >> of course, then we have to intervene in a military fashion to get it reopened. nobody wants to go there. of course, we were talking yesterday as well about the tensions between the u.s. and potentially israel over all this because when i asked who would be capable of pulling this off of literally having this kind of assassination inside of iran, well, nobody is attributing for certain, maybe mossad. >> i can't help you on that either. the u.s. government as you've said has completely denied any kind of involvement in this. but they're very interested targeted killings, obviously. the u.s. government is staying as far away as possible. i should point out, however, that martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs is going to i

google had great management with eric schmidt there.hether or not facebook can pull that off is another question. >> you raised an issue about the methods groupon used in its ipo and i'm curious whether you think lessons have been learned when we see the filing we're going to see straight-up numbers. do you expect to see some more interesting metrics get raised? >> i don't know. we'll have to wait and see the document as to whether lessons have been learned. i don't think so. i think investors on things like this lose their mind, if you will, and just invest on momentum. hope this will skyrocket. i just -- having lived through the dot-com craze, andrew, and seeing the debacle at the commission, seeing the things like groupon, things that you pointed out where their metrics don't make any sense, i just don't think investors learn from that at all. they continue to repeat mistakes hoping for that one big killing. >> i have one quig quick quiet period question. people around the company are speaking. i know last week sheryl sandberg was in

i had the pleasure of co-leading with eric schmidt of google the advanced manufacturing study that pcast did. and one of the key points that we talked about was the importance of the government, wherever possible, being a leader of providing safe harbor for public-private partnership. where you do in fact bring together the larger and smaller enterprises, particularly in areas where there is a shared infrastructure. because that can be of great benefit to smes. we have talked a lot about manufacturing, but what we have not talked a lot about is advanced manufacturing. when we talk about, we tend to talk about from the point of it cutting out jobs. but we don't talk about is how more advanced techniques, including the modeling and simulation can of existing enterprises, existing smes to improve old the productivity and quality of what they produce, which helps their competitiveness, vis-À-vis sought into global markets. as well as the definition of advanced manufacturing that has to do with using the new technology, and bringing new approaches and new technology to market. to me those are

in the picture i saw senator byrd and eric schmidt, steve jobs was at the dinner.he former ceo of yahoo! was at the dinner. i think dick from twitter was at that dinner. art levinson was at the dinner. was there any sense of any feedback, that sort of cycle back through around innovation, innovation policy that came out of that particular meeting? any sense that meetings like that had real impact, other than sort of the obvious? >> i think the impact i would say, and we take it for granted, get used what we have come having a president interest at the level of the emerging technology trends that we have is a new thing. i don't remember of the president, for example, gore as a vice president, but obama as the president has a deep interest in technology understanding it, understanding what makes technologies great, what will the government please. so i don't know how closely related to what come but in one of the topics of the day was high skilled immigration. that the president's position has gotten i think pretty clearly behind started these as one of the instrumen