I think that that signs up his view of it. He writes about technology and culture. The guardian, the new republic, mit tech review and his work has been included in the science and nature writing. I cannot note that in his biohe also says in the early 1980s he was a founding number of the universally unnoticed group and i want to give you sense up behind the stage banter that we were having. These guys all know each other they say that he and neck have been disagreeing for more than a decade. And he also describes it as a walking bummer. [laughter] there is no pessimism in davids view. Antiis a bit more moderated and then we will hear the doom and gloom area and david, start us off, he is the author of enchanted objects. I want to show you an image of my living room. Its a couple of minutes and that will illustrate many of the products that i talked about in the book. Enchanted objects have the same functionality as before except for now they can talk. These are ordinary things and hav
Is the sixth annual boston book festival. Youre the expert or she will see Panel Discussions on how mayors can affect National Politics and it is an inside look of the Digital World and the study of the brain and human consciousness. We will start with a debate on the uses of Technology Today and in the future. My mic is on. Thats good. I am Sacha Pfeiffer from wbur and im pretty excited for this panel because you are going to hear very different views on what the future holds. So we have here and we have talked a lot about the right order in which to bring our speakers up and we have decided you should probably hear from the optimists first about the future and then we will go to the pessimists. So the most optimistic person we have here is david rose sitting in the center. He has written a book called enchanted objects and next to me is our pessimist nick carr and andy mcafee or other optimists. Andy and david are colleagues at m. I. T. David and the metal, his whole work is basicall
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