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From YouTube: Victor Hoskins, Arlington Economic Development Director, on the Future of Technology in Arlington
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Victor Hoskins, Economic Development Director for Arlington County, speaking to the Arlington Civic Federation on April 14, 2016.
A
B
I
want
to
begin
by
saying:
I
was
very
fortunate
when
I
was
young,
I
was
an
avid
reader
of
science
fiction.
I,
absolutely
love
science
fiction,
I,
don't
know
how
many
of
you
here
were.
You
know
like
Isaac
Asimov,
like
a
lot
of
people.
Don't
know
that
he's
the
one
he's
the
one
that
wrote:
I
robot
and
a
lot
of
people
thought
that
was
like
you
know:
Will
Smith,
so
not
so,
and
I
also
read
Ray
Bradbury,
I
loved
Ray
Bradbury.
B
You
know
the
Martian
Chronicles
I
Fahrenheit,
451
I,
just
love
that
I
just
love
that
book
you
know
I
think
part
of
it
was
it
could
take
you
to
another
place.
It
could
take
you
to
the
future
and
the
thing
that
I
noticed
that,
like
with
BF
Skinner
in
walden,
pond
Walden
two
different
visions
of
the
future
utopia.
You
know
some
of
the
kind
of
post-apocalyptic,
but
but
the
reality
is
that
I
think
that
what
happened
to
me
was
when
I
saw
Flash
Gordon
when
I
saw
the
original
Star
Trek.
B
Yes,
there
was
an
original
Star
Trek
before
the
next
generation
and
all
that
other
stuff
I
think
that
it
formed
a
vision
of
the
future.
For
me,
which
one
was
one
a
very,
very
optimistic
future.
If
you
come
in
an
office
right
now,
you
will
see
actually
the
starch
direct
to
trek
crew
with
with
them
with
my
favorites
up
there,
including
unlimited
money
Nimoy.
B
But
what
I
want
to
do
tonight
is
that
really
talk
about
kind
of
another
vision
of
the
future,
and
this
is
that
this
is
a
you
know
it's
a
hundred
years,
so
you
know
you
can
check
me
if
I'm
wrong.
Okay,
oh
I,
call
you
to
do
that.
Not
with
these
medical
advances
you
might
be
around,
you
never
know
so.
I
want
to
start
with
a
with
a
video
and
a
vision.
Someone
has
a
future.
C
C
Today
we
are
making
the
next
giant
stride
the
age
of
the
smarter
home
in
even
just
to
monitor,
control
and
secure
our
living
spaces
with
a
touch
of
a
smartphone
at
anytime
and
from
anywhere
we
can
now
switch
on
lights,
turn
up,
thermostats
unlock
the
back
door
or,
from
the
palm
of
your
hand,
using
samsung,
smart
things.
Technology
essentially
again
advances
in
technology
like
these
would
have
seemed
impossible.
So
what
can
we
expect
to
see
in
the
next
100
years
as
City
space
becomes
more
squeezed?
We
will
burrow
deeper
and
build
higher.
C
Towering
megastructures
will
dwarf
today's
skyscrapers,
while
Earth,
scrapers
or
tunnel
25
stories.
Deep
or
more
underwater
cities
are
likely
to
become
a
reality
using
the
water
itself
to
create
breathable
atmospheres
and
generating
hydrogen
fuel
in
the
process.
Doc
Brown
in
Back
to
the
Future
said
well
we're
going.
We
don't
need
roads,
he
may
have
got
the
year
wrong,
but
his
forecast
about
transport
is
likely
to
be
correct.
Some
of
us
will
be
traveling.
C
The
sky
raised
with
our
own
personal
flying
dreams
sounds
strong
enough
to
carry
entire
homes
around
the
world
for
holidays,
flexible,
smart
walls
will
mean
you
won't
ever
need
to
decorate,
led
room
surfaces
will
adapt
to
suit
your
mood
when
it
comes
to
entertaining
that
we
know
more
watch
recipes
or
pizza
deliveries.
We
will
download
dishes
from
famous
chefs
and
3d
print
everything
from
gourmet
meals
to
our
favorite
cakes.
In
minutes,
our
working
lives
will
be
transformed
with
Holograms,
allowing
us
to
attend
meetings
virtually
without
leaving
home.
C
This
may
lead
to
a
shorter
working
week,
but
the
strategic
sicky
will
be
the
thing
of
the
past
step
in
home.
Ready
pods
will
confirm
if
you
are
really
ill,
providing
a
digital
diagnosis
and
supplying
medicine
or
remote
surgeon
if
you
need,
and
finally
the
next
giant
leap
was
the
ethers
say
last
century
a
tree
start
colonizing
space
first,
the
moon,
then
Mars
and
then
beyond
out
into
the
galaxy
remember.
These
are
just
predictions
for
the
century
ahead,
but
the
technical
and
medical
breakthroughs
moving
a
pace
and
an
ever
increasing
life
expectancy.
B
I
wanted
to
do
is
just
give
you
kind
of
a
you
know,
a
futurist
view
and
then
talk
a
little
bit
about
about
Arlington,
what's
happening
only
to
right.
Now,
it's
going
through
a
transformation
in
terms
of
its
economy.
Our
government
services
are
shrinking.
Our
med
tech
is
growing
and
evolving
into
biotech
and
personalized
medicine.
Our
EdTech
is
going
to
take
leaps
and
bounds
and
we're
really
evolving
into
a
more
cybersecurity.
Robotics
biomed,
big
data,
environment
and
I
think
that
x,
20
x,
21
16.
B
We
will
certainly
be
there
what's
going
to
change
and
I'll
just
because
I
only
have
about
five
minutes
left.
That
was
two
and
a
half
minutes,
and
I
burned
about
30
of
30
other
seconds.
What
I
want
to
do
is
talk
about
like
how
some
of
this
is
going
to
happen.
You
know
in
construction,
like
construction
methods
are
going
to
attain
change
totally.
They
will
not
involve
people,
they
will
actually
involve
swarms
of
drone
machines.
Now
you
probably
sitting
there
going
like
really
but
think
about
it.
B
If
you
could
program
a
drone
to
layer
bricks,
for
example,
one
drone
to
come
in
two
layers
cement.
Another
drone
to
come
in
to
drop
a
brick
and
another
drone
to
come
in
and
drop
another
brick.
That's
one
methodology
they're
also
talking
about
3d
printing
houses,
they've
already
done
it,
that's
printing
houses
at
scale.
They
are
they're
creating
cars
by
3d
printing
I
mean
it
is
really
revolutionizing
how
a
lot
of
work
is
going
to
be
done
and
the
challenge
is
going
to
be.
What
do
we
do?
You
know
how
do
we?
B
How
do
we
really
develop
our
purpose
in
life
and
I?
Think
that
one
of
the
great
thing
that
Arlington
is
poised
for
is
really
dealing
with
purpose
in
life.
Arlington,
I
think,
is
going
to
be
one
of
the
few
cities
in
a
country
that
actually
gets
20
homeless.
That's
because
of
the
heart
of
the
people
of
arlington.
It's
the
numbers
have
gone
from
over
800
to
down
172
now
and
they
are
really
fighting
to
get
it
to
zero.
That's
purpose
and
I
think
that
kind
of
purpose
is
going
to
become
more
important.
B
You
know,
there's
a
there's.
A
book
called
the
age
of
unreason
written
by
a
gentleman
named
Charles
handy
he's
passed
away.
Now
he
was
a
professor
emeritus
at
CMC
out
and
in
California,
but
also
from
the
London
School
of
Economics.
In
short,
what
he
said
was
that
we
will
live
three
lives,
one
life
learning
how
to
work.
The
second
life
actually
working
in
a
third
life,
giving
back
I
mean.
Essentially
that
is
the
kind
of
the
purpose
of
our
lives
going
into
the
future.
B
How
are
we
going
to
get
around
a
that?
Nice,
okay,
so
this
this
is
something
that
is
actually
a
prototype
that
they
are
saying
will
be
flying
in
the
next
decade.
Okay,
this
thing
travels
at
over
a
thousand
miles
an
hour.
They
actually
are
looking
at
some
that
travel
3,500
miles
an
hour
at
that
speed
you
can
get
across
the
country
in
about
45
minutes.
B
The
interesting
thing
is
about.
Let
me
back
up
to
this
interesting
about
this.
You
won't
need
airports
by
2116.
Our
Airport
won't
really
need
it.
You
can
actually
stack
planes
because
they'll
be
able
to
stop
and
hover,
and
that's
something
that
we
don't
even
think
about
these
days.
So
much
is
going
to
change
that
we
won't
even
recognize
it.
Can
you
imagine
getting
in
a
Hyperloop
and
going
to
New,
York
and
30
minutes,
I'd
love
to
do
that?
If
you've
been
on
amtrak,
you
know
that
be
a
gift,
self-driving
cars.
This
is
not
hyperbole.
B
This
is
going
to
happen.
This
is
a
destiny.
Someone
told
me
that
80
robotics
engineers
were
recruited
out
of
Carnegie
Mellon
to
work
for
uber
I'm,
telling
I'm
telling
secrets
out
of
turn
the
only
reason
I
found
themselves,
because
this
was
an
investment
guy,
and
this
is
public.
Now
I
said
it.
They
are
working
for
uber
to
create
a
self-driving
car.
B
There
will
not
be
uber
drivers,
there
will
be
uber
cars,
but
they
will
not
be
drivers
and
they
will
get
you
to
your
destination
with
zero
energy
and
because
a
lot
of
these
cars
will
be
running
off
batteries
or
self
general
energy
virtual
reality,
oculus
rift.
Oculus
rift
is
going
to
transform
how
we
communicate
like
right
now
when
I
talk
to
my
mother
I
get
on
the
telephone.
If
my
mother
was
a
little
less
afraid,
she'd
actually
do
face
time
with
me.
B
It's
going
to
be
a
very,
very
different
world
in
very
short
order:
artificial
intelligence.
Now
this
scare,
some
people,
anybody
here
ever
did
you
first
of
all,
did
you
read?
I
robot?
Ok,
that's!
Ok,
that's
scary,
because
that's
a
fun
book,
but
did
you
see
I
robot?
That
was
even
scarier?
Ok,
but
a
lot
of
people
fear
this,
but
I
don't
think
it's
going
to
be
quite
the
way
that
they've
been
portraying
it
in
movies,
and
this
is
certainly
not
going
to
be
the
way
in
Arlington.
I.
B
Think
a
lot
of
people
aren't
you
want
to
do
their
own
work,
but
there
will
be
a
lot
of
things
that
we
won't
want
to
do
like
cut
the
lawn
or
I
mean
like
me,
I,
don't
like
cleaning
gutters
I
like
a
robot
for
that,
but
also
they'll,
be
able
to
you
know,
retrieve
drinks.
Bring
your
medication.
Tell
you
when
you
need
to
go
to
sleep,
tell
you
we
need
to
wake
up.
Tell
you
when
you're
late
for
work.
You
know
all
the
things
that
you
know
are
irritating
zero
energy
buildings.
B
This
will
be
the
standard.
All
buildings
that
will
build
will
not
be
consuming
energy.
They
will
actually
be
producing
energy.
The
Arlington
experiences
so
we're
moving
for
right.
Now
the
economy
is
going
to
change
quite
a
bit.
We
don't
know
exactly
how
it's
going
to
be,
but
I
know
my
grandson
will
be
around
to
see
it.
Thank
you
very
much.