And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome jaron lanier to this program. More than 30 years ago he founded the First Virtual Reality Company and is widely credited with popularizing the term. His new memoir, dawn of the new everything encounters with reality and Virtual Reality, gives us a glimpse into his unusual childhood and how it led in part to his lifelong relationship with technology. An honor, sir, to have you on this program. I saw the maureen dowd piece on you, did you like it . Oh, yes, charming piece. It opened my eyes to things about your life that i didnt know, so i was honored to have you on the program. I promised you that if you so first of all, yeah, thank you, so explain why you have no shoes on. This is the fourth time in my whole life that ive worn a jacket. They have a dress code here. I said, ill wear the jacket if i dont have to wear shoes. That was my bargain. Do you typically walk around barefoot . I like Walking
[inaudible conversations] booktv is on twitter. Follow us to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Twitter. Com booktv. Pulitzer prizewinning science and Technology Reporter john markoff, whose work appears in the New York Times, talks about the current and future relationship between humans and robots. John markoff has been seeing around the corners of the future as one of the nations Top Technology writers since he joined the New York Times in 1988. In 2013 he won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting as part of a team of New York Times reporters. Hes a frequent host and moderator for our revolutionary series, and we love john for all of these reasons. But we have a special affection for john for other reasons as well. He is a child of Silicon Valley. He grew up and went to high school here. He started covering technology in Silicon Valley in 1976. His vivid book, what the doormouse said, illumin
Love with eniac. He knew what it could do. Then it was this very wonderful thing where he taught clarie how to program it. There was a debate of who so what first, but somebody saw that they were designing the institute machine and writing code for it. But the machine was not ready. Someone said, we can rewire eniac and run programs on the eniac. They spent six weeks rewiring it and getting it to run. That was the origin of modern software. And that was such a fruitful time. So it was a mixture of their marriage, the coding. And she had no training whatsoever . She did have training. During the war, when johnny went off to england to do what, we do not know . She was left behind in princeton. Women could apply and get a wartime job. Hers was at the center for Population Research at princeton university. Her job was modeling populations of people. What would happen if you created a new state in the middle east or something . They model growth of population. That is what you needed to so
Library and also bpl presents, which is the libraries arts and culture arm tonight. I am thrilled to welcome author james gaines whose latest book which comes out on february 8th is titled the 50s and underground history. Im going to tell you a little bit about what Publishers Weekly says, it says this revisionist history is packed with insights it goes on to say that gains delivers a compassionate and insightful Group Portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues womens rights civil rights and the environment in the 1950s, not the complacent era that we all think it is. So tonight jamess conversation partner is writer daniel okrent. And before i introduce the two of them. I just have a few quick notes for you first while the book is not released for a few more weeks. This is kind of a sneak peek. You can preorder it and we will put a link in the chat to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can do that if you so desire with ju
Delivers a compassionate and insightful Group Portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues womens rights civil rights and the environment in the 1950s, not the complacent era that we all think it is. So tonight jamess conversation partner is writer daniel okrent. And before i introduce the two of them. I just have a few quick notes for you first while the book is not released for a few more weeks. This is kind of a sneak peek. You can preorder it and we will put a link in the chat to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can do that if you so desire with just a couple of clicks. Second like all of our talks you have the option tonight to use closed captioning that features that the bottom of your screen life transcript and finally i want to invite you all to share your questions tonight for james type them throughout the program into the q a box at the bottom of your screen and dan will will take as many of them as he has time