The leader of the pack was definitely MIT professor and author of Alone Together, Sherry Turkle. She described the bleak reality many of us live in, by which we stare into our screens big and small while our sensual, visceral lives pass us by. Our very emotional cores, she explains, are being altered by our inability to disconnect from the digital world. But it s not too late, according to Turkle: We grew up with digital technology so we see it as all grown up. It s not. In other words, we still have time to develop our capacity to be discerning when it comes to those glowing screens.
While one would expect thought leaders like Turkle to focus on technology, it was interesting to see the theme pop up in unexpected moments as well. Joshua Foer, who wrote Moonwalking with Einstein, spoke about the ways in which our memories have been eroded by sheer neglect in the age of Google searches and instantaneous results. As he trained for the U.S. Memory Championship, he learned about the ancient idea of building a memory castle by which the average human mind can expand its capacity to remember a flabbergasting number of names, faces, or digits. But the real takeaway wasn t about freakish recall, it was about everyday meaning. Foer asked, How much are we willing to lose by not leading a memorable life? Be a person who remembers to remember.
Designer Chip Kidd spoke animatedly about the power of a well-designed book to relay a visual message about the story inside: A book cover is a distillation: It is a haiku, if you will, of the story. Reminiscing about the incredible smell of old books, he teased the audience, I am all for the iPad, but trust me: smelling it will get you nowhere.
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