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 sector. 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. in particular on whether this is going to be good or bad on the for the whole of 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 bios in your program. i won't run through them in detail but i'll just briefly introduce our panel. to my left is david autor professor of economics at m.i.t. one of the nation's leading economists who has probably contr

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 in particular in the information center. -- sector. 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 wide range of views on this topic, in particular if this will be good or bad or how good or bad on 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 a

my name is melissa carney and i have the privilege of moderating the first discussion this morning.s panel is going to take the premise laid out for us but there've been rapid technological advances in particular in the information sector and we are going to ask the question what does that imply for the future of work into the nature of employment in this country in particular and as we try to lay out in the paper there are a wide range of views on the topic and in particular this would be good or bad and this morning we have a really expert had a really expert group to discuss these issues with us. i mean truly i would say it is in a leading mind the leading minds in the world on these very questions. you have their full biographies in your programs so i won't run through them in detail but i will just introduced the panelists this point. to my left is david, professor of economics at mit and one of the late debate commission's leading economists who has contributed more to the trends and market places than anyone. and we have larry summers come at the university professor, emeritu

let me close by extending particular thanks to melissa carney, who i already mentioned, our director, kristin mcintosh, our managing director, and brad hirschbine, the visiting fellow with the hamilton project providing the intellectual construct for this session and putting together truly a remarkable program. let me thank the members of the staff of the hamilton project whose thoughtful hard work is central to everything we do at our project. with that, let me turn the podium 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 hamilton staff for organizing an event as rich as this and as substantive as this. as bob said, we're going to start with framing remarks from erik and andy, both professors at m.i.t. and the sloane school of management there. erik runs the m.i.t. initiative on the digital economy, and andy is a principle research scientist at m.i.t. and the sun school