Here is Nicholas Carr, author of an alternative history of Silicon Valley. [inaudible conversations] im director of the wisconsin book festival, welcome to what is proving to be a wonderful day at our 14th annual wisconsin book festival. Thank you for coming tonight or this afternoon. I would like to thank Nicholas Carr for his book utopia is creepy and other provocations but first i think Madison Public Library and all our sponsors for making possible, i want to thank you here in this room for coming and everyone watching on cspan booktv, cultural experiences like this are few and far between and we are honored to put one on for you in madison, wisconsin. For the past 15 years, Nicholas Carr has been giving us the real alternative history of what the information is for all of us. If you are listening to him, many Different Things about the personal things we give up every time we empty our pockets. You have heard how the internet changes our brains and fairly scary or creepy things, n
Could you talk to our audience about your home, the circumstances of your upbringing. Guest yes, thank you so much for having me. I grew up in mexico and my family, theyre all entrepreneurs and they worked really, really word to be able to provide my siblings and i a better life and even when i was in mexico i was really surrounded by a really large support system because my family is really close not just emotionally experience. So i grew up in mexico from middleincome family. I use today take piano lessons and karat lessons in my small hometown and that also same with sacrificed and the biggest sacrifice that had my parents were making in order for me to have that kind of life was that we werent together. My parents lived in the u. S. And i lived in mexico and we would only see hech other every few months or i would come to the u. S. And visit them in the summers. Host tell us more about that, your participants deciding to come to the u. S. And live apart from their children, what wh
[inaudible conversations] im director of the wisconsin book festival, welcome to what is proving to be a wonderful day at our 14th annual wisconsin book festival. Thank you for coming tonight or this afternoon. I would like to thank Nicholas Carr for his book utopia is creepy and other provocations but first i think Madison Public Library and all our sponsors for making possible, i want to thank you here in this room for coming and everyone watching on cspan booktv, cultural experiences like this are few and far between and we are honored to put one on for you in madison, wisconsin. For the past 15 years, Nicholas Carr has been giving us the real alternative history of what the information is for all of us. If you are listening to him, many Different Things about the personal things we give up every time we empty our pockets. You have heard how the internet changes our brains and fairly scary or creepy things, neck is here to give a better view of how we can live our lives, change the
Dies vietnam and the memory of war. [inaudible conversations] tonights wisconsin book festival. Im here as a member of the board of the wisconsin humanities council, and its really a tremendous pleasure to be able to introduce the next speaker and to thank, first of all, the Madison Public Library the library foundation, humanities council, all the other sponsors. This is probably a good time to remind you to check and make sure that your cell phone is silent. Everybody reaches for the cell phone immediately. And the book festival is asking people to talk about their experiences using the hashtag wibookits wi book fest. All one word. Books are for sale afterwards out in the, just on the other side of this wall. Viet is really a remarkable author. You get people who are accomplished as literary authors and people who are accomplished as nonfiction authors, and hera has actually pulled off major accomplish bements in both accomplishments in both rell are ms in basically the last year wit
Silicon valley. [inaudible conversations] im director of the wisconsin book festival, welcome to what is proving to be a wonderful day at our 14th annual wisconsin book festival. Thank you for coming tonight or this afternoon. I would like to thank Nicholas Carr for his book utopia is creepy and other provocations but first i think Madison Public Library and all our sponsors for making possible, i want to thank you here in this room for coming and everyone watching on cspan booktv, cultural experiences like this are few and far between and we are honored to put one on for you in madison, wisconsin. For the past 15 years, Nicholas Carr has been giving us the real alternative history of what the information is for all of us. If you are listening to him, many Different Things about the personal things we give up every time we empty our pockets. You have heard how the internet changes our brains and fairly scary or creepy things, neck is here to give a better view of how we can live our li