Elliot Gerson of the Aspen Institute introduces a conversation titled, “Your life in a surveillance society”. The discussants are Jack Balkin, legal scholar and philosopher… Read More »Aspen Ideas Festival: Surveillance society
This morning at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Brian Lehrer show is being broadcast live as we act as breakfast-eating studio audience. The first guest… Read More »Aspen Ideas Festival: Digital Natives
In the closing “conversation” today at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Charlie Rose interviews former Secretaries of State Madeline Albright and James Baker and current deputy… Read More »Three secretaries, no waiting
Anna Deveare Smith holds a conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, who was the inaugural poet at President Barack Obama’s election. Smith notes, “When I heard… Read More »Elizabeth Alexander – Not Britney Spears
I’m a bad blogger today, but a good conversationalist. Aspen isn’t bloggable in the same way as a conference like TED or Pop!Tech – we’re… Read More »Property rights: so easy an Indonesian dog could do it.
I’m at the Aspen Ideas Festival and still trying to get a sense for how this conference works. I arrived late last night and spoke… Read More »George Dyson and critics of Darwin