With Tiffany Shlain and  Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Airs Wednesday, September 9th 2015

During this week’s radio show you will learn about:

• The Single Most Important Thing You Need to Understand About the Power of Technology
• What Does it Mean to be “Connected” in the 21st Century?
• What it Means to be a Woman Filmmaker
• Digital Detoxes: Do they work? How long do you have to go on them to see benefits?
• Contemplative Computing

 

Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain is one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st century,” and is on NPR’s list of Best Commencement Speeches, Ever. Four of her films have premiered at Sundance. Her AOL original series The Future Starts Here was nominated for an Emmy Award and has received over 40 million views. Her nonprofit Let it Ripple offers thousands of schools and orgs around the globe free films and resources.

You can learn more about Tiffany here.

 

*Special Re-Air!* Alex Soojung-Kim Pang writes about people, technology, and the worlds they make. He has spent more than two decades exploring this relationship, first as an historian of science and technology, and as a futurist and technology forecaster. Alex received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a senior consultant at Strategic Business Insights, a Menlo Park, California consulting and research firm. He has also recently recently held academic appointments at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University’s Saïd Business School.

Alex began his latest book, The Distraction Addiction (Little Brown, 2013) while serving as a Visiting Fellow in the Socio-Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. The Distraction Addiction explores our deep, intense, and easy to misunderstand relationships with technology. It explains how they help define who we are, and they they sometimes seem to drive us. Finally, it shows how even in today’s high-tech tsunami of new products and tweets and likes, we can learn to make choices that don’t just help us better “manage” technology, but expand our minds, become wiser and more creative, and help us become better people.

You can learn more about Alex here.