my name is melissa carney. i have the privilege of moderating our first panel discussion this morning. this panel is going to take the premise that andy and erik laid out for us, that there has been rapid technological advance particularly in the information center. we will ask the question what does that imply for the future of work the future of workers and the nature of employment in this country in particular? as we i tried to lay out in our hamilton project framing paper there are a lot of views on this topic if this will be good or bad on that or how good or bad on that for society. fortunately this morning we have a really expert group to discuss these issues with us. truly, i would say some of the leading minds in the world on these very questions. you have their full bio-s in your program. i will just briefly introduce them. to my left is david otter, professor of economics at mit one of the nation's leading economists who has probably contributed more to the nation's leading trends and labor market th

let me close by extending thanks to melissa carney, who i've already mentioned. our director managering director and brad, the visiting vel fel low at the hamilton project providing the int luck eventual construct for this session and putting together a remarkable program. let me also thank the members of the staff of the project whose thoughtful and hard work is central to everything that we do. with that, let me push it over to roger altman. roger. >> morning, everyone. i'll be real brief. i think that the upcoming framing remarks and the two panels we're about to have are going to fit anyone's description of provocative. i, too, want to thank melissa and kristen and the entire staff for once again organizing an event as rich as this. as substantive as this. as bob said, we're going to start with framing remarks from eric and andy. they're both professors at mit. and the sloan school of management there. eric runs the mit initiative on the digital economy. and andy is a principle research sign scientist at mit and the song school in his field of research is the