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Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, discusses future prospects for U.S. technological innovation. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on August 18, 2010. This program features visual aids. A full video version is available at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/18/Aneesh_Chopra_The_Future_of_US_Tech_Innovation Aneesh Chopra was sworn in by President Obama in May 2009 as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer. Chopra has sought to use information technology to raise public awareness about President Obama's policies on health care, energy and the environment. Chopra discusses how investing in technological innovation is a crucial aspect of job creation, reducing health-care costs and protecting the country. Previously, Chopra served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology as well as Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, leading the firm’s Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan Executives. Michael Moritz is Managing Member of Sequoia Capital. He is a former Board Member of Google, PayPal and Yahoo!, and a current Board Member of GameFly and Kayak, as well as a former Correspondent and San Francisco Bureau Chief of Time.

panel of media experts discusses the potential for video games to promote and inspire social activism. This program was recorded in collaboration with the New School, on May 3, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Games for Change, or G4C, is a movement and community of practice dedicated to using video games for social change. The movement -- spurred by the growth in "serious games" and intelligent conflict resolution games -- is now a full-fledged subgenre that has backing from the United Nations and other international bodies. Games for Change is also the name of a nonprofit organization that provides support and resources to individuals and organizations that use digital games for social change. This event features leaders of the Games for Change movement, who demonstrate their work and discuss how G4C producers can join the growing community of developers of progressive video games. Panelists include: Asi Burak, executive producer of Games for Change Eric Zimmerman, founder of GameLab Terrence Masson, professor at Northeastern University and New England representative of PGA New Media Council East The panel is moderated by Chris Pfaff, chapter chairman of PGA New Media Council East. Co-sponsored by the Producers Guild of America and the Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School.

This program features visual aids. A full video version is available at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/08/Planning_India_From_Chandigarh_to_NanoCity swissnex San Francisco invites a panel of experts to discuss the past and future of urban planning in India, highlighting two examples: Chandigarh, a city mandated by the Nehru government in the 1950s and designed by Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and NanoCity, a yet-to-be-built metropolis initiated by entrepreneur (and Hotmail co-founder) Sabeer Bhatia and designed by the Berkeley Group for Architecture and Planning. In many ways, these two cities suggest a shift from municipalities planned by governments to ones dreamed up by influential individuals. They may also herald a transition of power from the hands of political decision-makers to those of the business world. Even the function of cities themselves seems up for reinvention. Where Chandigarh was established as an administrative capital, NanoCity aspires to be a hub for education and high-tech. - swissnex San Francisco Sabeer Bhatia is an entrepreneur and founder of NanoCity and sits on the board of directors of several companies as well as advises start-ups. With NanoCity, he hopes to replicate the vibrance and eco-system of innovation found in the Silicon Valley. Mark Jarzombek is Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his architectural degree from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, and his Ph.D. from MIT. He has held fellowships at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Humanities and Art, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Canadian Center for Architecture. Vikramaditya Prakash is a professor of architecture and an adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle. He grew up in Chandigarh, India, and received degrees from the Chandigarh College of Architecture, Panjab University, and Cornell University. Susan Ubbelohde is a professor in the of architecture at University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches design studios and seminars in sustainable design, lighting design, high performance facades, and architectural theory. She is a principal of Loisos + Ubbelohde Associates, a design and consulting firm based in Alameda, California, focused on high performance and sustainable design.

Is the internet changing human intelligence? Yes, says technology author Nicholas Carr -- and not in a good way. In an interview with Google's Peter Norvig, Carr shares his theory on the Internet as the culprit against civilization's progress. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on June 23, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Nicholas Carr writes: "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski," in his Atlantic Monthly cover story, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" He shares his theory on the Internet as the culprit against civilization's progress, making the case that the it has diminished our ability to think deeply. - Commonwealth Club of California Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, which is "widely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement," according the Christian Science Monitor. His earlier book, Does IT Matter?, published in 2004, "lays out the simple truths of the economics of information technology in a lucid way, with cogent examples and clear analysis," said the New York Times. His latest book is, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Carr's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Peter Norvig is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc he was Director of Search Quality, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002-2005, and has been Director of Research from 2005 on.

Author David Kirkpatrick talks about his book, The Facebook Effect, in a conversation with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on June 23, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Author David Kirkpatrick traces the story of the most powerful social networking tool of our day from its humble beginnings to its role as an international phenomenon. He is in conversation with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. The Facebook Effect is the only book written with the full cooperation of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Started only six years ago, Facebook can now claim more than 400 million users and a potential valuation of $100 billion by 2015. Is an IPO forthcoming? - Commonwealth Club of California David Kirkpatrick, longtime senior editor for Internet and technology at Fortune Magazine, has written for two decades about the computer and technology industries, as well as the impact of the Internet on business and society. His book, entitled The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World will be published by Simon and Schuster in the U.S. June 15, 2010. The book describes Facebook's history and how this newly-dominant Internet force is changing behaviors across societies worldwide. J. Michael Arrington is an entrepreneur and the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering Silicon Valley technology start-ups and the wider technology field in the USA and abroad. Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.

Neuroscientist and fiction writer David Eagleman presents "Six Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization." This program was recorded in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation, on April 1, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Civilizations always think they're immortal, Eagleman says, but they nearly always perish, leaving "nothing but ruins and scattered genetics." It takes luck and new technology to survive. We may be particularly lucky to have Internet technology to help manage the six requirements of a durable civilization: 1. "Try not to cough on one another." 2. "Don't lose things." 3. "Tell each other faster." 4. "Mitigate tyranny." 5. "Get more brains involved in solving problems." 6. "Try not to run out of energy." But if the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for survival. - The Long Now Foundation David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a fiction writer. During the day, he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law at Baylor College of Medicine. He is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. His debut work of fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, became an international bestseller and is published in 22 languages. Stewart Brand is a co-founder and managing director of Global Business Network, founded and runs the GBN Book Club, and is the president of The Long Now Foundation.

Top tech commenters Jimmy Wales, Andrew Keen, Farhad Manjoo and Micha Sifry debate the impacts of the internet on democracy and the marketplace of ideas. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Miller Center of Public Affairs, on May 18, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. In less than a generation, the Internet has altered the daily lives of individuals in ways few would have conceived in its nascent stages. Initially a playground for the computer savvy, the world of blogs and tweets has given equal voice to anyone with a computer and a web connection. It is also where Americans increasingly look for news and information -- according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, last year the Internet surpassed newspapers as the source of national and international news, nearly doubling from the year before. Barack Obama channeled the power of the Internet to reach millions during his presidential campaign, and his administration has launched innovative methods to use the Internet to govern. Debaters include: Pro: Andrew Keen, author, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture Pro: Farhad Manjoo, journalist for Slate, author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society Con: Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia Con: Micah L. Sifry, editor, Personal Democracy Forum

A panel of media executives discuss current revenue strategies for digital media companies. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on May 13, 2010, Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Digital content will continue to transform traditional media. How old and new media make money during and after this transformation, however, remains uncertain - even as more and more content comes online, from traditional sources, independent producers and users themselves. Which business models are working now and what will work in the future? How will emerging distribution models and new platforms affect the ways that new content is created? Join the Commonwealth Club as a panel of experts examines the new business models for content creation, distribution and monetization. This event was co-produced by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP. - Commonwealth Club of California This panel features Mitch Galbraith, COO of Funny or Die; Evan Hansen, Editor In Chief, Wired.com; Martine Paris, Director of Business Development, Strategic Content Partnerships; Brian Pass, Partner, Shepard Mullin Richter and Hampton LLP; Hilary Schneider, Executive Vice President, Yahoo! Americas; Brent Weinstein, Head of Digital Media, United Talent Agency.

Cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan addresses the growing digitization of the university classroom. This program was recorded in collaboration with the City University of New York, on April 21, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Professor Vaidhyanathan's keynote address, "'The Classroom is Sacred': Digitization Without Commercialization," addresses the myriad challenges facing university faculty, administrators and students in finding the best ways to embrace emerging digital technologies to improve teaching, research and learning without giving in to commercial pressures or arguments about efficiency or cost savings. Prof. Vaidhyanathan suggests that we approach the implementation of academic technologies in the classroom with a sense of experimentation and modesty. - CUNY Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, www.googlizationofeverything.com. He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and to MSNBC.COM and has appeared in a segment of "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book.

Google executive Anjali Josi discusses current tech trends with investor Esther Dyson, in a conversation moderated by FORA.tv CEO Blaise Zerega. This program was recorded in collaboration with World Entrepreneurship Day, on April 14, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Esther Dyson is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia. Since selling her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, she has taken on newer challenges in private aviation and space as well as in health care (as a director of 23andMe, a consumer genetics company). Esther's IT investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!), and Medstory (sold to Microsoft), as well as Meetup Inc., Eventful.com, Boxbe and Voxiva; she sits on the boards of the latter four companies. Esther is also an active investor in air and space, with holdings in Space Adventures and Zero-G Corporation, as well as XCOR Aerospace, Constellation Services International, Coastal Technologies Group, Dopplr.com, Airship Ventures and Icon Anjali Joshi is an accomplished technology executive who has held significant leadership positions in high-growth companies. She is a currently a Director of Product Management at Google where she leads groups focused on the software, network and computing infrastructure, translation products and internationalization/localization of Google products. Most recently, she has been integral in managing Google's Fiber to Communities effort, which will ultimately bring ultra high-speed broadband access to as many as 500,000 people across the United States. Blaise Zerega is President and CEO of FORA.tv. He was previously a deputy editor and Conde Nast Portfolio where he led the magazine's technology coverage. Before joining Portfolio, Zerega was the managing editor of WIRED magazine.

The Paley Center for Media hosts a panel discussion titled "Innovation in an Era of Upheaval: The E-Reader Wars." This program was recorded in New York, NY, on March 24, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Companies across the media industry are racing to get their eReaders in the hands of consumers, which means big change for the publishing industry and the media business overall. Organizations are scrambling to ensure that their readership is not lost as the reading habits of their long-time consumers are redefined by the upheaval caused by the new wave of eReaders. With Apple's iPad release scheduled for April 3, the Paley Center gathered a group of senior media executives to discuss strategies for how the media industry can most effectively retain consumer loyalty as well as capitalize on one of the most talked about new gadgets of 2010. Moderator: Josh Quittner, Editor-at-Large, TIME Panelists: Brooke Gladstone, Host and Managing Editor, On The Media, NPR Keith McAllister, Online Editor, Reuters Scott R. Singer, Managing Director and Head of Media and Entertainment, The Bank Street Group, and author, How To Hit A Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Chief Marketing Officer, Skiff

United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck discusses the President's Open Government Initiative. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation, on March 4, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. President Obama's first executive action was the Open Government Memorandum calling for more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government. It is likely that one of the longest lasting effects of the current administration will be how much it changed the culture of Washington by opening government data and pioneering innovations in policymaking. As the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and leader of the President's Open Government Initiative in the White House, Beth Noveck is in the forefront of the Federal government's implementation of these changes. On leave as law professor at New York Law School and a visiting professor of communication at Stanford University, she lectures on intellectual property, innovation and technology law. She is also the Founder of the State of Play conferences. Noveck just released her latest book Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. - The Long Now Foundation Beth Simone Noveck is the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government. She directs the White House Open Government Initiative. She is on leave as a professor law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford University. Dr. Noveck taught in the areas of intellectual property, technology and first amendment law and founded the law school's "Do Tank," a legal and software research and development lab focused on developing technologies and policies to promote open government (dotank.nyls.edu). Dr. Noveck is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006). Stewart Brand is a co-founder and managing director of Global Business Network, founded and runs the GBN Book Club, and is the president of The Long Now Foundation.

Drawing from location awareness and voice recognition technologies, representatives from Bing, Google and Wolfram Alpha weigh in on the future of Internet search. This Digital, Life, Design 2010 panel features Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Bing), Ben Gomes (Google), Ilya Segalovich (Yandex) and Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram Alpha). Jochen Wegner (Focus Online) moderates. DLD is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together thought leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia. In 2004 Blaise Aguera y Arcas founded Seadragon, Inc., to develop ideas in scalable architectures and user interfaces for interacting with large volumes of visual information, potentially over a narrow-bandwidth connection. Microsoft bought Seadragon at the beginning of 2006. The Seadragon team's most visible project to date is Photosynth (labs.live.com/photosynth), a collaboration with researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Washington. Ben Gomes is a Distinguished Engineer at Google where he is a lead for the company's engineering efforts on search features. Gomes has been with Google for more than ten years and has worked in the development of nearly all aspects of the Google search service ranging from crawling and indexing to ranking and new feature design. Conrad Wolfram founded Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in 1991 and in 1997 also became Strategic Director at Wolfram Research, Inc., founded by brother Stephen. In 2009, the Wolfram |Alpha knowledge engine spin-off was launched to dramatic interest - both because of its new approach and the unique combination of Wolfram Technologies which made it possible. Ilya Segalovich is one of Yandex's co-founders and has been Yandex Chief Technology Officer and a director since 2003. He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arcadia Company, where he headed its software team. From 1993 to 2000, he led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International.

Digital, Life, Design Conference 2010 presents Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley, in a conversation with paidContent.org founder Rafat Ali. This program was recorded in Munich, Germany, on January 26, 2010. DLD is an inspiring community for the 21st century which features digital innovation, science and culture and brings together thought leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and investors from Europe, the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia. Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative and gaming elements to encourage people explore the cities in which they live. Previously, Crowley founded dodgeball.com, which was acquired by Google in 2005. He has been named one of the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" by MIT's Technology Review magazine and has won the "Fast Money" bonus round on the TV game show "Family Feud." His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine, Newsweek, MTV, Slashdot and NBC. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Crowley holds a Master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a Bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Since founding paidContent.org in 2002, Rafat Ali has overseen the rollout to three new verticals and the expansion into revenue generating events for the parent company ContentNext Media. Before ContentNext, Ali was managing editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter. Editor and Publisher has called Ali "journalism's poster boy for career independence from news companies," and CBS MarketWatch has called him "a pioneer in using the Web for an almost real-time business news feed."

Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and philanthropist in conversation at the Discovery Forum 2010 with Emmy-award winning journalist Dana King from CBS 5 Eyewitness News. Renowned technology pioneer Steve Wozniak speaks to the importance of hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, and how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century. The Discovery Forum serves to increase awareness about the importance of childhood creativity, and raises support for the Museum's educational exhibitions and programs. - Bay Area Discovery Museum A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators. In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers." Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.