1,000 Cuts: The Toll Of Racism In The Workplace
Soledad O’Brien knows a powerful story when she sees it.
As a participant in ServiceNow’s Knowledge21 Think Big series, the award-winning journalist and entrepreneur recalled a company workshop on racism where one of the Black participants stood up to speak. The experience he shared was “breathtaking,” she said.
It falls upon the shoulders of leadership to create an anti-racist organization.
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“One night he went down to his basement, he heard a noise.” O’Brien recalled. “And when he got downstairs the basement door was open. And he stood there thinking, ‘Did somebody break into my house? Should I call the police? Or did the wind blow it open?’”
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Coming to a headset near you, a chance to walk among ‘ghosts’
Soon you could be walking in a street in London next to your best friend, who at the same time is walking with you in Sydney, Australia
5 April 2021 • 4:00pm
Call it holoportation. Call it telepresence. Call it the Zoom of tomorrow or the Star Wars Jedi council room of today, but one man who has experienced it insists that beaming digital versions of ourselves around the world is now very real and very thrilling.
“The first time I saw a realistic avatar beamed into my physical space,” says Prof Jeremy Bailenson, “and his feet were on the floor and his eyes followed my gaze as I walked around the room, my jaw dropped. I said: ‘This is it’.”