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  • CA - nation-state due to diversity of our people, power of economy, reach of dream - 6th largest market economy in world
    • 1st American third-world city
    • Federalist model
  • Decentralized network - Devolution Moment (ask to see panel)
    • Eurasian New Deal
    • New American Century
    • Creative Disorder
    • Adaptive Strain
      • Living in bottom half: innovation come from bottom up innovation
      • Pushing power out to edge
      • Notions not brought into governance of republic
  • Federalist Model
    • Environmental - Car laws
    • Stem cell
  • CA trends - going down in all areas
    • Especially technology: we are net importer for 1st time. No longer exporting
    • US Wages and Productivity
      • Productivity increasing, wages not
        • Globalization removes floor underneath wages
        • Massive fall-off in median family wealth
  • Technology, Devolution, Cooperation - go together (do they - cooperation)
    • Cost of cooperation has dropped radically - Moore's law
      • Cost of calls to India. Diffused power. Force of Moore's law
      • Networks need to say open
        • Walled garden cancels Moore's law
    • Open Source movement - Pekka Himanen
      • Scandinavia wrecked by massive unrest about race and especially religion
      • Hear voices and scare us and wreck cooperation
      • (Apache and Open Source win)
      • Google leverages off open source
  • Politics of Cooperation - open source basis change nature of politics
  • CA - started as republic - "Bear Flag Revolution" - "single creative state serve as a laboratory"
    • High Cost of Centralization of power
    • Massive time energy commitment to complete federal education programs
    • Federal - education , housing, labor, agriculture, HHS, transportation - are all duplicative
  • Options
    • Create Gas Tax
    • Increases Taxes
    • Raise R & D tax credit/lower deductibility of advertising expenditures
  • Military Industrial Complex
    • Save 60 billions
    • Assuming could make big change
    • HUGE GLOSS OVER: Media challenge: soft on defense
  • Education - not respecting (Korea - 2.5X make average)
    • Risk of devolution
  • Universal Broadband - by 2012. what is terminal endpoint?
  • Telecommunicating: JetBlue customer service - women work from home, 4 hr. shifts
    • natural monopoly phenom exists
  • Universal Health Care
  • Became World Leader in Green Business



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