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No More Teachers? No More Books? :
HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NETWORKED AGE
a panel discussion presented by Harvard Extension School featuring
Craig Silverstein (Google), Sherry Turkle (MIT),
Robert Darnton (Harvard), David Weinberger (Berkman Center)
Wednesday, November 18, 4:00pm
Lowell Lecture Hall
Harvard University
Corner of Oxford & Kirkland Streets
This event is free and open to the public.
Panelists include:
Craig Silverstein, Google's "Employee #1" and
director of technology
Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of
the Social Study of
Science and Technology at MIT, author of The Second Self: Computers and
the Human Spirit, and editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With,
as well as the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology
and Self, and a featured media commentator on many network and cable
news programs.
David Weinberger, PhD, fellow at the Berkman Center
for Internet and
Society, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as
Usual and Everything is Miscellaneous, and a frequent writer and blogger
whose work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships,
communication, and society
Robert Darnton, Carl Pforzheimer Professor of
History and director of
the Harvard University Library, a distinguished scholar whose writings
include The Case for Books and a recent New York Review of Books article,
"Google & the Future of Books," in which he reflects on the Google book
digitization project
Moderated by: Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer
Science at Harvard,
co-author Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the
Digital Explosion
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/centennial/
Harvard Extension School
51 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4024
www.extension.harvard.edu
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