Been doing this for a long time and i have been doing this since before there were laws in this space so there were some responsibility but in a regular talk i give to businesses right now is whether your data obligations because everybody has them now trade 47 states have passed certain data loss. Kentucky just past one this last month to come into the rest of the world. But its interesting, you have those in california has done things such as almost having a right to erase your past while on social media if you were a teenager. So god forbid any of us would have said things we were embarrassed about when we were a teenager and or posted them on line. That is where the California Legislature is coming from. Is a coming from the police . A little bit of both but theres a lot coming from the state legislature. Our good friends across the street here have been looking at this issue and have 20 or 30 acts in the statutes and the space up there looking at year after year after year but the
That. You have to adjust. The third piece of advice is, do what you love and do something you are excited about it, not because it is more fulfilling those kinds of winnertakeall markets, you know, there will be a reward for being the very best in something, and there will be a lot of reward for being average or above average. There are few people that can be the best bet anything unless they really love it and enjoy doing it and in some time on it. Those pieces of advice are probably the best kind of guidance for anyone going forward. The second question is apparent question very often about collegeage kids. Two pieces of advice. The first point is for the kids, it that damn bucks. One thing that we came across as about this the amount of hard work going on on a College Campus these days. And a concurrent slide in which people are actually i guess they should be in class and instead theyre playing pierpont. These things, theyre really appears to have been a slide. So hit the books and
Democracy is beginning to become irritated at the technology. That is a nice phrase in, isnt it. It has been one of the unique stories of the last 20 years. The birthplace. The modern digital age, and reaction to it. The same thing happening batiste. It is too cold back east. [laughter] and this is why we talk to our techno utopian friends to say dont worry, technology will take care of all these things. You have to grapple with the fact that not everybody is sharing in this county currently. If you just ignore that of people are going to get justifiably angry. And the reaction of many of them is going to be, we have to stop this technology, throw rocks at the buses. 200 years ago it was smashing the runs. As we said earlier, we dont think that is that all the right solution. Destroying the benefits that we could be having. If you ignore the problem, that is a reaction that many people will have to be have to change the conversation to focus on more Realistic Solutions that are more in
To god. Host and you have a quotation from kevin kelly, we tend to see got it reflected in nature, but technology is the better mirror of god and next to that is a picture of jesus. [laughter] host with a laptop. Guest he has a whole world in his hands. Kevin kelly is such a fascinating character. He was one of the early editors of wired magazine. And he also comes from a position of faith. And so i think he has looked at technology and how we organize our lives, how engineers structure things as a way of may be talking about the ways in which god might be the original technologist. And when we look at our dna, you know, which that human genome project with sir Francis Collins , to what degree is the affirmation that we have in our bodies sort of fair reflection . Are we sort of wired or encoded in an organized fashion . And what will what role does god, the technologist, play and all of that . Host are you worried about how much sounder spending with technology from a Christian Point
In january the new congress will have the largest gop majority since the 2000 elections. Craig detweiler talks about his book igods in which he looks at the impact of technology and social media in our culture today. This interview is part of booktvs College Series from Pepperdine University. Host you are watching booktv on cspan2. We are on location at Pepperdine University in malibu california as part of our university series. We like to visit universities and colleges and talk to professors who are authors. Joining us now is Craig Detweiler. His book igods how technology shapes our spiritual and social lives. Here is the book cover by professor detweiler before we get into that what do you teach a pepperdine . Guest i am a filmmaker first and so i teach screenwriting and i teach production and help students navigate the entertainment industry. Host you are also director of the center for entertainment. That is part of your professorship here . Guest yes its a bit of a think tank loo