[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] everybody, welcome to this amazing talk. My im a ph. D student in the humanities group, doing research and a fellow of the center for ethics. So today we have kentaro, who is a professor at the university of Michigan School of information. He also founded Microsoft Research india, where he created a group that did technology for emerging markets. His talk today will be on the law of am mixification. A very amplification, a very interesting talk. And its kind of a heresy in some ways to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing culture change from technology. It provokes important conversations because i think technology is important, but also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how we design the technology in the best we way can. So without further adieu. Like to introduce kentaro here. [applause] thank you for that introduction, and id like to thank the center and m. I. T. For host
Its third month. Kurdish forces say they are biding their time. Plus three, two, one. And liftoff at dawn. The dawn of orion. Better late than never. Nasa launches a rocket that could one day take us to mars. The case against kenyas president for crimes against humanity has collapsed. Prosecutors at the International Criminal court failed to gather evidence to take kenyatta to trial. The heard was accused of masterminding postelection violence in 2007 and 2008, which left over 1200 people dead. Today at the hague, the prosecutor hases dismissed the charges. [ applause ] reporter the cabinet secretary for Foreign Affairs announcing the news to a group of kenyan business people. For more than three years the International Criminal court in the hague has struggled to make its charges of crimes against humanity against preside president kenyatta stick. And the icc itself was accused of not cared out a proper investigation. This is a huge blow to the prosecution of the icc. Clearly it seems
Institute. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] we are in kind of an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, hes supposed to be here is ill will something. So i guess lets see if i can just craig, can you hear me . Hes ill with something akin to muteness. Hes looking pretty good. [laughter] craig, can you hear me at all . You think hes scary looking . Hes not scary looking. [laughter] hes just an ill man. Lets see if we can we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. [laughter] if worse comes to worse, ill just tell you what i think he would have done if i could control him like a puppet. [laughter] all right. Now maybe hes hearing me. Craig, can you hear me . I can, robert. Nice to hear you. All right. We lost you for a bit. So whats wrong with you . [laughter] or. Lets see, i didnt want to leave la jolla sunshine for washington d. C. No, a number of things going op but, you know, it would have made montezuma proud. [laughter] le
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Admission fees. You said something i will read. I am not aware of any aspect of the forprofit world that does not have to take another look at the Business Models. That sounds like a dog be open. Is it . Not as far as im concerned, but let me say that again and try to be more clear. Everybody can get in there and these days you dont even have to come to washington to do it thanks to the work on digitizing private collections which is a fabulous idea to make it more accessible. In washington you can come in. What i did say two different thoughts got fired Business Models of everything that depends on government funding will have to be more and more creative private Public Partnerships are springing up everywhere because of the reality of revenue with no intention of making those institutions less successful. It may be more difficult. I think there was a piece saying at cornell was number six when it comes to the number of alumni that are billionaires. Under the tenure there was a lot of