Lectures tagged "Computing"


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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.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel Pink
January 6, 2010
00:50:03
Business and technology writer Daniel Pink explores what makes us most productive, and discusses his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Cory Doctorow: Makers
Cory Doctorow
November 16, 2009
00:46:03
Sci-fi novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow reads from Makers, his new novel about the near future of technological innovation.
Digital Inclusion
Iqbal Quadir
October 24, 2009
00:32:34
Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing count
The Future of Reading: Books Without Pages?
David Pogue
October 24, 2009
01:36:23
New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue takes a look at how reading and books will be experienced in the future. Steve Haber of Sony, Neil Jones of Interead, and Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of Pixel Qi, showcase new technology.
Public Accountability After the Age of Newspapers
Paul Starr
October 1, 2009
01:28:09
Paul Starr, professor of communications and public affairs at Princeton University and co-editor of The American Prospect, joins Martin Baron, editor of The Boston Globe, and Dan Kennedy, assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Journalism and nationally recogni
New World Order: State of the Arts Field
Craig Aaron
August 27, 2009
00:59:11
In the opening plenary of the 2009 National Alliance for Media, Art, and Culture (NAMAC), speakers address the threats and opportunities in their field from the perspective of four factors that affect their work: the economy, policy, technology, and culture.
Lewis Lapham: Mixed Media
Lewis H. Lapham
April 29, 2009
00:58:49
Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham observes that the media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues - film, book, video game, broadcast, blog - that without a dictionary or a concordance it is hard to know who is saying what to whom.