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
Leave our phones behind. We live here in california. And so its an station might be to take it to the beach. We live here in california and so the temptation might be to take that phone to the beach but isnt that supposed to be a time away, a time apart, time to think, time to not be interrupted, time to wander. Theres a need for space in our lives, too i guess make room to be surprised by whats in front of us rather than this thing that is sort of telling us whats next. Host is setup to do . Guest oh its hard to separate ourselves from technology. I have an assignment in class where i asked the students to put it away for 24 hours, to have no cell phone use, put away their computers in their laptops in a Television Set and it almost drives them crazy. They are like how can i possibly do this . My parents will wonder what am i doing, where am i . Get what they discover is they might begin that activity feeling very hairy but as they turn off they actually have more space and they sudde
It is interesting. The software forces you to be positive and share something that deserves a thumbsup, a like. Host as a College Professor here at pepperdine, is technology interfering with teaching . Guest every teacher, i think, wrestles with what to do with technology in the classrooms. I mean, the students, if they are taking notes on their laptops they are also getting updates, that twitter feed, you know, so you are constantly competing for their attention. Even in an exam situation, the possibility of students, you know, accessing information via their cell phone underneath a desk is high. And the temptation to cheat his everpresent. So one way i have dealt with it, i am teaching media. Yet i allow no media in the classroom. You know, no laptops, no cell phones. They have to be fully present to the discussion and to each other. I might use media on screen. I might have a laptop bringing up our points and slides and showing videos, but i do not want them out there. When it comes
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
Im starting to ssierra when im the best questions that might actually get us closer to the vision with her splayed us out over 200 years ago. Thank you all so much for coming. The book is available on amazon. Com. I hope youre interested in buying it, but if not, please follow up with me. Thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] up next on booktv, after words with guest host said two, author of the googlization of everything. This become a bestselling author, Jeremy Rifkin in his latest book, the zero Marginal Cost Society. And i commend the European Union pfizer argues capitalism is on its way out in the combined communications, energy and much of styx internet slowly to its demise by increasing production and distribution and effectively eliminating corporate profits. The program is about an hour. Host hello, Jeremy Rifkin is with us today. I am Siva Vaidhyanathan from the university of virginia. We are going to discuss his new book, the ze