Clinton was rallying her voters with the help of katy perry and a concert in philadelphia. You ready to rock for hillary . When your kids and grandkids ask you what you did in 2016 when it was all on the line, i want you to be able to say, i voted for a better, fairer, stronger america where everybody has a chance at the american dream. This campaigns are taking very different paths to election day. Today, Hillary Clinton and tim kaine are targeting a number of states in an attempt to try to check mate trump. Michigan, not yet lit up on our board, is suddenly in play. Tomorrow clinton and president obama and bill clinton are all going to be saturating that suddenly into the battleground state. Donald trump and mike pence have no clear path. They are throwing spaghetti at 270 electoral votes. Of course, they still have to win the traditional battleground states, florida, ohio and North Carolina and find a couple of blue states to flip. Iowa looks good. Is it michigan . We have correspon
His talk today will be on what he calls the law of amplification. So its a very interesting talk because, you know, here at mit our motto is let us build technology and, obviously, that will solve all of the worlds problems. [laughter] and its kind of a heresy in some way to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing social change from the cult of technology, something thats very interesting because it provokes, you know, important conversations. Technology is important, but its also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how do we design the technology in the best way we can. So without further ado, i will introduce kentaro here. [applause] thank you for that introduction, and id like to thank the center as well as mit for hosting this and all of you for coming. So, you know, when you have a book titled geek heresy, i feel like i need to establish my geek credentials. [laughter] and in an mit audience, thats particularly difficult. I wa
[inaudible conversations] welcome todays International Spy museum maya vase curator welcoming you to one of our author debriefing programs. We are appreciative of you coming out tonight we know that it is friday night. We are pleased to have any jacobson here and the best selling author about government secrecy not to mention intelligence. Her best seller area 51 has been published in five languages as her 2014 nonfiction best seller operation paper clip was one of the best books of 2014. Her new book the pentagons brain was published on tuesday and after reading it it will not be long before it joins her other two books as a best seller. Welcome. Do you have on your bookshelf copies of your books and all five languages . I actually do. Especially the chinese one in particular. One fame that we have bothers here especially they tend to read about field that is not the most conducive the secret world of intelligence and how did you come across the idea of writing a book about darpa and
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] everybody, welcome to this amazing talk. My im a ph. D student in the humanities group, doing research and a fellow of the center for ethics. So today we have kentaro, who is a professor at the university of Michigan School of information. He also founded Microsoft Research india, where he created a group that did technology for emerging markets. His talk today will be on the law of am mixification. A very amplification, a very interesting talk. And its kind of a heresy in some ways to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing culture change from technology. It provokes important conversations because i think technology is important, but also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how we design the technology in the best we way can. So without further adieu. Like to introduce kentaro here. [applause] thank you for that introduction, and id like to thank the center and m. I. T. For host