Geek Heresy: What’s Essential in an Age of Advanced Technology
Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/03/2015
4:30 pm
Location
E15, Bartos Theater, Lower Level (20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA)
Categories No Categories
Open to General Public
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Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In previous lives, he co-founded Microsoft Research India and taught at Ashesi University in Ghana.
Abstract:
Over the last four decades, America experienced a golden age of digital innovation. Yet during the same span of time, the rate of poverty stayed put, social mobility stagnated, and inequality skyrocketed to levels not seen for a century. How is it that our most advanced technologies failed to impact our deepest social challenges?
This talk presents technology’s Law of Amplification — a simple idea that explains why gadgets alone consistently fail to deliver social progress, and why in an age of advanced technology, it’s all the more important to focus on nurturing human wisdom.
Over the last four decades, America experienced a golden age of digital innovation. Yet during the same span of time, the rate of poverty stayed put, social mobility stagnated, and inequality skyrocketed to levels not seen for a century. How is it that our most advanced technologies failed to impact our deepest social challenges?
This talk presents technology’s Law of Amplification — a simple idea that explains why gadgets alone consistently fail to deliver social progress, and why in an age of advanced technology, it’s all the more important to focus on nurturing human wisdom.
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