speakers include larry somers, defense advanced research project director. also, mit business research scientist andrew mcafee. robert rubin delivers opening remarks. >>> okay. i think we'll get under way. good morning. i'm bob rubin. and on behalf of my colleagues tat hamilton project i welcome you to today's discussion, where the future of work in the machine age. before i lay out 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'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 serious as a purpose of discussion policy, debate and dialogue. we believe that is particularly important at this time when, unfort