The Digital Revolution and American Opportunity

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast: Virginia, May 22, 2016/Nationally, May 25, 2016

Senator Mark Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2008 and reelected to a second term in November 2014. He serves on the Senate Finance, Banking, Budget, and Intelligence committees, and from 2002 to 2006, he served as Governor of Virginia. The first in his family to graduate from college, Mark Warner spent 20 years in business, was an early investor in the cellular telephone industry, and co-founded the company that became Nextel.
Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia and a faculty associate at the Miller Center. Previously, he was a career diplomat, posted overseas and in Washington, including service on the National Security Council staff for President George H.W. Bush. Since leaving government service in 1991, he has taught and directed research programs at Harvard University and at the University of Virginia, including directing the Miller Center from 1998 to 2005. His books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft; The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis; and Essence of Decision. His participation in the group Rework America led to the publication of America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age in June 2015. This book discusses the transformation of America as it enters the ‘digital age’ and how technology can become a tool that can open opportunity to everyone.