Lectures tagged "Internet"


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Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor
Kevin Sampsell
February 17, 2010
00:43:39
Writer Kevin Sampsell and blogger Justin Taylor read from their new books. In 2008, Kevin Sampsell's estranged father died of an aneurysm.
Robert Darnton: The Case for Books
Robert Darnton
February 3, 2010
00:57:50
Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, discusses the historical and cultural importance of the printed word.
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier
January 13, 2010
00:49:32
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier discusses his new book, You Are Not a Gadget. Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture.
The Changing Role of News in the US and the World
Julia Wallace
November 17, 2009
00:22:08
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor Julia Wallace discusses trends in the local and global news media businesses today.
Tyranny of E-mail: The 4,000 Year Journey to Your Inbox
Tyranny of E-mail: The 4,000 Year Journey to Your Inbox
John Freeman
October 13, 2009
00:44:16
Freelance book reviewer John Freeman warns us about The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year-Journey to Your Inbox.
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century
Jacqueline Olds
February 11, 2009
01:05:55
Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz discuss the previously un-reported American epidemic of living in social isolation in their new book, The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Centur
Second Life: Perceptually Immersive Spaces
John Lester
October 30, 2008
00:21:26
John Lester talks about Second Life, an online social role-playing world platform.