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Andrew Zolli, executive director and curator of PopTech, closes Chautauqua’s week of lectures on “Digital Identity” with a Friday address in the Amphitheater. Photo by Michelle Kanaar.

Zolli: Technology makes superheroes of ordinary people

August 3, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Privacy issues and the fear of becoming obsolete increase as technology evolves, but people cannot lose sight of the possibilities it provides.

“The big story is that our capacities and our challenges are moving in lockstep. We’re living through both a global extinction event and the Renaissance at the same time,” said Andrew Zolli, executive director and curator of PopTech. “It’s hard to wrap our minds around.”

Zolli focused on technology’s capabilities amid the challenges and disruptions society faces during Friday’s morning lecture in the Amphitheater, ending the “Digital Identity” lecture platform on a positive note.

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Dahlia Lithwick, a columnist on the law and the U.S. Supreme Court and senior editor at Slate, speaks about privacy issues in the digital age Thursday morning in the Amphitheater. Photo by Adam Birkan.

Lithwick: People have forsaken privacy for digital identity

August 2, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

In exchange for a digital identity, people have given up their privacy.

Google has kept archives of emails sent and friends’ replies for the last six years. Facebook tracks people’s activities all over the Internet, even when they are logged off. And Twitter taps into entire address books when people use the “find friends” option and archives it for 18 months.

For those who do not use Facebook or Twitter, that does not mean no one is watching them, said Dahlia Lithwick, who reports on the law and the U.S. Supreme Court as a senior editor of Slate magazine. People can be tracked by turning on their phones, using an E-ZPass or using a Starbucks card.

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Braden Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics at Arizona State University, delivers Monday’s morning lecture in the Amphitheater. Photo by Adam Birkan.

Allenby: Evolve with technology, or become obsolete

August 1, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

People have grown up to believe that self is built within them. But Braden Allenby argues that the Cartesian perspective is wrong.

To Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics at Arizona State University, self is the ability to adapt and integrate with the environment as it changes.

In his lecture, titled “Slow Sunset of the Self,” Allenby spoke about the meaning of self in a technological world and how multitasking has allowed younger generations to adapt to it. His Wednesday morning lecture in the Amphitheater was the third of Week Six, themed “Digital Identity.”

The world currently faces a digital divide between those who have access to computers and those who do not. One solution to close the gap has been to provide computers for the underprivileged. But there is another angle to consider.

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Vivian Schiller, chief digital officer for NBC News, and David Folkenflik, NPR media correspondent, speak at the morning lecture program Tuesday in the Amphitheater. Photo by Michelle Kanaar.

Schiller, Folkenflik: Social media gives the people tools of communication

July 31, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Social media has helped shape democracy by providing people with the means of communication to gain more access to information.

“I think it is good for democracy, because the tools of communication are in so many more people’s hands,” said Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and chief digital officer at NBC News, during Tuesday’s morning lecture.

Schiller and David Folkenflik, who served as moderator and is NPR’s media correspondent, discussed the challenges and opportunities facing digital and social media at the Amphitheater for Week Six, themed “Digital Identity.”

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Sherry Turkle, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiative on Technology and Self, answers questions after her morning lecture Monday morning in the Amphitheater. Photo by Michelle Kanaar.

Turkle: People must embrace solitude for conversation

July 30, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 1 Comment

Feeling lonely has become a problem people need to solve, and connectivity through technology has become the solution. But it also leads to isolation.

As people feel the need to connect more, the ability to have conversations diminishes.

“We make our technologies, and then, in turn, our technologies make and shape us,” said Sherry Turkle, director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on Technology and Self. “They make and shape our digital identities.”

Turkle spoke about solitude and how the communications culture has shifted as a result of technology during Monday’s morning lecture as the first speaker of Week Six, themed “Digital Identity.”

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Nicholas Burns, the final speaker of the Week Five lecture series on Pakistan and professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, spoke on the issue of trust between the United States and Pakistan Friday morning in the Amphitheater. Photo by Lauren Rock.

Burns: U.S., Pakistan fated to be allies

July 27, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Though the relationship between Pakistan and the United States has become increasingly complex, the two are destined to be allies.

Nicholas Burns, former U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs, discussed the importance of U.S.-Pakistan relations from the U.S. perspective at Friday’s morning lecture in the Amphitheater. His lecture, titled “Where U.S.-Pakistan Relations Should Go from Here,” concluded Week Five, themed “Pakistan: Straddling the Boundary Between Asia and the Middle East.”

Burns focused on three questions: Is Pakistan important to the United States?; Are the two countries loyal friends to each other?; and How can the next president work with Pakistan to confront challenges?

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Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, lectures Thursday morning in the Amphitheater. Photo by Eric Shea.

Nawaz: US needs to form relationship with Pakistani society, not military

July 26, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The combination of Pakistan’s involvement in the most recent war in Afghanistan and its weak policy making and governance has diminished its ability to provide for its citizens.

It is a crisis much greater than the state of its relations with the United States, said Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, during Thursday’s morning lecture in the Amphitheater.

Nawaz spoke about the situation Pakistan and its military face today, as well as what the country must do to become a strong, prosperous country, during Week Five, themed “Pakistan: Straddling the Boundary Between Asia and the Middle East.”

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Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, speaks on the damaged alliance between the two countries Wednesday morning in the Amphitheater. Photo by Lauren Rock.

Haqqani: US, Pakistan should focus on friendship, not alliance

July 25, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 7 Comments

Pakistan and the United States have clashing narratives about their alliance.

From the Pakistanis’ perspective, the U.S. and Pakistan have been allies for 60 years, but the U.S. has walked away several times and cannot dictate Pakistan’s foreign policy.

From the Americans’ perspective, Pakistan is not a true ally. Pakistani public opinion remains anti-American despite the amount of aid the country receives, Husain Haqqani said. And Americans question Pakistan’s involvement with terrorists and its ability to fulfill promises.

Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., spoke about U.S.-Pakistan relations, how that alliance was damaged and Pakistan’s national interest at Wednesday’s morning lecture in the Amphitheater for Week Five, themed “Pakistan: Straddling the Boundary between Asia and the Middle East.”

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