The author of this book digital minimalism, choosing a focused life in a noisy world. Professor newport, what you mean by digital minimalism . A philosophy of technology ruse, a way to screen what tech you use and why you use it. The second half of your book is about additional declut digital declutter. Declutterhe word instead of detox where we take a break from the tech, before turning back to the. Behaviors letsutter is currently clean up our act and get into a sustainable state of affairs. Host in the introduction to your book, there is a footnote the fact to some that i cannot draw from a deep well of experience is a liability. How can you crimina criticize sl media view of never used it . Ive never had a social media account, which makes me just about the only one. I figure we have to have one person out there looking at these issues who is not him or herself deeply enmeshed in these forces in a personal way. Host so, when it comes to digital mentalism, you are not asking the peo
Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Cal newport is an computer professor of science at georgetown university, and he is the author of this book, digital minimalism. Professor newport, what do you mean by digital minimalism . Newport it is a way to screen what tech you use, what tech you dont use, and why you use it. Host the second half of your book is about digital the clutter, which is . Prof. Newport i use the clutter instead of detox. It seems to be the word right now. We need a digital break. Back to thening behaviors that made us take a break. Clutter is different. Clutter is, lets permanently clean up our act and get to a more sustainable state of affairs. Host in the introduction to your book there is a footnote that says, to some, the fact that i cannot draw from personal experience is a liability, how can you criticize social media if you have never used it . What is your activity in social media . Prof
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Controversial extradition law and hong kongs chief executive has apologized for it. Not good enough for the people of hong kong, who turned out by the millions this weekend and who have returned to the streets today. They want the law dropped completely and the chief executive to resign. The pressure on xi remains. He is not leading a united country. Trouble back home. To the markets. We are going down a little at the opening bell, not much. Maybe ten points for the dow, up about 13 on the nasdaq. This is all about Interest Rates. The Federal Reserve will announce a decision at 2 00 p. M. Eastern wednesday afternoon. Will they cut . Dont know but theres a good chance they will. Thats what investors are waiting for. I want to know what happens to stocks if they do cut and what happens if they dont. Now heres those outage stories. You could call this a sign of the times. When computers go down, it is truly devastating. Over the weekend, target stores all shut down for a couple of hours.
escape from wuhan. these photos taken by daisy roth of wisconsin show what it was like inside the chartered plane that took 178 evacuees from the coronavirus outbreak zone in china and landed them safely at travis air force base in fairfield. there was applause when they walked through the door. frankly, it was a very emotional experience, having the first family walk through the door. reporter: most of the evacuees are american citizens ranging from toddlers to seniors older than 65. the evacuees were taken to the west wind inn, which is inside the air force base. that will be their temporary home for the next two weeks. 14 days is the longest incubation period ever observed in coronavirus. reporter: a visibly emotional woman speaks to her loved ones in san diego via facetime from her fairfield hotel room. i had a meltdown on the flight inside the plane, and then staff, they carried me out. reporter: wei will spend the next two weeks decompressing while doctors m