Please take a moment to silence your cell phones and take pictures under any social media. Do that silently you dont want to be the first one when your phone rings on national television. At the q a portion i will pass around a wireless microphone. Please raise your hand i will get over to you then speak into it. If you have not yet purchased a copy they are available you can buy a copy or two or however many you decide that you need . After the event we are happy to send books and now why we are all here to talk about the new book the russia trap. So with that former analysis of caa informer analysis advisor the now director National Security draws nearly 25 years of experience to warn russia and us are on a collision course. He shows how factors including new strategic weapons and settle the conflicts and the advantages over cyberattacks too high in the competition between the two countries where here to talk about it help me welcome george. [applause]. Thank you very much for that i
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
We replaced the Computer Network with a system of mobile phones were basically farmers could individually send text messages, inquire about the harvest and then get the results back. We did a pilot and we found the farmers really enjoyed the interaction. They like to get it privately on their own. We log queries as early as 3 a. M. When many farmers get up. Over all we estimated if the cooperative were to use the system in all 54 of the villages it operator in, that it could save 25,000 a year which is not significant, but enough that it would change the way it operates, possibly back to the farmers. Ultimately, we were not able to get his pilot to run in the remaining villages because there was rivalry between the people we worked with and the managing director. It seemed like he helped some kind of threat with this technology that was being promoted by the i. T. Department. You might think thats an exception. This is a situation with the technology solves the problem there was some i
[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
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