Books & Technology

Silicon Valley Reads 2014 Books & Technology: Friends or Foes? Calendar of 100+ Events January-March, 2014 Authors • Panels • Films • Art Exhibit • Discussions Free events for all ages throughout Santa Clara County PRESENTED BY: SiliconValleyReads.org Welcome to Silicon Valley Reads 2014 From the Gutenberg press to e-books, new These and other provocative questions will be 2014 Companion Books for inventions and innovations have made books the subject of more than 100 public events Children & Teens more accessible to a wider audience. With in Silicon Valley Reads 2014, a community Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris digital devices now the centerpiece of how we engagement program that asks everyone in Grabenstein (ages 8 and up) gather information and communicate, “book” Santa Clara County to read, think and discuss is being redefined. Does the latest technology this important topic. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris help or hinder the connection of authors and Lessmore written by William Joyce and readers through the written word? Does 2014 Featured Books illustrated by William Joyce and Joe Bluhm (ages 4-8) “digital divide” now also mean the gap between The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing the benefits of deep reading and our post- To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Reading Makes You Feel Good by Todd Parr Internet habit of leapfrogging from one short (preschool) information byte to another? Is there such a Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by thing as too much information? Robin Sloan Kick Off of Silicon Valley Reads 2014 Wednesday, January 22 Mike Cassidy Ron Campbell Nicholas Carr, author of The by Westmont Jazz Combo under the direction of Doors open at 6:45 p.m. No tickets or Shallows: What The Internet Jesse Sanchez. reservations required. First come, first seated. Is Doing To Our Brains, and Books will be available for purchase and authors Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Special guest appearance by R. Buckminster will sign after the program. A video of this Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, are interviewed Fuller, aka actor Ron Campbell of the San Jose program will be posted in the Video Library of on stage by Mercury News columnist Mike Repertory Theater’s one-man show about the the website SiliconValleyReads.org. Cassidy. Co-sponsored by Commonwealth futurist and inventor. Club Silicon Valley. Welcoming music performed 7:30 p.m. at Campbell Heritage Theatre Information: [email protected] Deep Reading Art Exhibit February 3-March 20 On Sat., March 1, the public is invited to a “Deep Reading Artist Workshop” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn to make books that fold up in magical ways and reveal a story when opened. There will be printing and stamping stations Photo: Julie Chen Photo: to fill your books with imagery “Deep Reading” looks at the Liu with Michael McClure, Kent and text. Drop-in, free of charge intersection of humanity and Manske, Moonbot Studios, Jamila with ongoing activities and technology and traditional Rufaro, Vita Wells and Nanette refreshments. practices in the digital age. Wylde. Special installation with Artworks include one-of-a-kind, Chesa Caparas’ Stanford Human Euphrat Museum of Art at small edition, and digital artists’ Rights Fellowship project and De Anza College is open Mon.- books with computer woven artists’ books by De Anza College Thur., 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. (closed Mon., tapestries, paintings, geolocation- Art and Design students. Feb. 17 for Presidents Day), Sat., based AR (augmented reality), March 1, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., Thur., prints, animation, and sculpture. The public is invited to attend Feb. 6, 7-7:30 p.m. and open to Artists include Milton Bowens, Julie a reception for the artists of the tour groups by appointment. Chen and Flying Fish Press, Antonio “Deep Reading” exhibit with special Information: 408-864-5464 Cortez, Wayne Jiang, Pantea Karimi, guest Robin Sloan, author of Mr. John Kurtyka, Marlene Larson, Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, on Magnolia Editions with Enrique Wed., Feb. 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Chagoya, Guy Diehl, and Hung Wells Vita Photo: 2 Event listings in date order at SiliconValleyReads.org Silicon Valley Reads Day at the Computer History Museum Saturday, Feb 15 Silicon Valley Reads participants get free admission today to the Computer History Museum, the world’s largest collection of artifacts related to the history of computing, including hardware, software, documents, ephemera, photographs and moving images. It presents a comprehensive view of computing history that includes the machines, software, business and competitive environments, personal recollections, and social implications of one of humankind’s most important inventions – the computer. 11 a.m. of KiteReaders, a platform that creates, markets and (continued) distributes children’s picture e-books; and Rama Reserve your free pass by emailing name and number of guests to Sadasivin, Director of Content Acquisition, Scribd, a [email protected]. Pick up your admission pass in the Lobby of the subscription service for digital books. Computer History Museum on Sat., Feb. 15, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 11 a.m. Docent-led tour of the museum. Co-sponsored by the Computer History Museum, Technology Credit Union, League of Women Voters – Southwest, Palo Alto and San Jose- 1 p.m. Babbage Engine demonstration, an automatic Santa Clara chapters. computing engine designed 150 years ago. Activities 1-2:30 p.m. “Google and the World Brain,” a film about the dreams, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Explore 20 galleries containing 1,000 unique artifacts dilemmas and dangers of the Internet. (See page 6.) and hundreds of videos, graphics and photos chronicling the evolution and impact of modern 2 p.m. Docent-led tour of the museum. computing. 2:30-3 p.m. “And now for the rest of the story …” 11 a.m. “The e-Book Revolution:” a panel discussion of Pamela Samuelson, the Richard M. local e-book entrepreneurs moderated by Dale Sherman Distinguished Professor of Bryant, Executive Editor of Silicon Valley Community Law & Information at U.C. Berkeley and Pamela Newspapers. Panelists include: Mark Coker, founder a frequent commentator on the Authors Samuelson and CEO of Smashwords that has published more Guild v. Google lawsuit, will talk about than 250,000 e-books; Chintu Parikh, founder/CEO what has happened since the film was completed.” Unintended Consequences: Is Too Much Information, Closing Event Too Fast, Too Much of a Good Thing? of Silicon Valley Reads Thursday, March 27 Finding and reading a book takes time. Leaping 2014 from one website to another can be done in Sunday, March 30 seconds. This panel will discuss the advantages and dangers of the digital information revolution. De Anza College President Brian Panelists are: Murphy talks with authors Nicholas Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: Carr and Robin Sloan about their What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains books and the Silicon Valley Zack Lynch Zack Lynch, Founder and Executive Director of the Neurotechnology Reads experience. Winners Industry Organization, author of The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science of the Cupertino Library Is Changing Our World, and developer of Kidstar, a play time limit reward system app for iDevices Foundation Essay Contest will be announced. Marilyn Walker, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor of Brian Murphy Computer Science and head of the Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Co-sponsored by the Lab in the Baskin’s School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cupertino Library Foundation. Marilyn Walker Cruz, who is leading a large research project on dialogue in online forums and social media. 1:30 p.m. at Cupertino Moderated by Barbara Marshman, Editorial Pages Editor, San Jose Community Hall. Mercury News. Information: [email protected] This is a free program open to the public. You do not have to purchase admission to the museum to attend. Co-sponsored by The Tech Museum and Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley. Barbara Marshman 6:30 p.m., The Tech Museum Information: [email protected] 3 Location addresses on page 11 Events with Nicholas Carr The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains “…Over the last few years, I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going – as far as I can tell – but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I feel it most strongly when I’m reading. I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article. My mind would get caught up in the twists of the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration starts to drift after a page or two. I get fidgety, Joanie Simon Photo: lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel like Nicholas Carr I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” Excerpt from The Shallows About Nicholas Carr Sunday, Jan. 26, 2 p.m. at Dr. Martin Luther Sunday, March 2, 1:30 p.m. at India King, Jr. Library Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, Community Center Co-sponsored by Friends of Dr. Martin Luther and economics. The Shallows: What The Internet Author talk and panel discussion. Co-sponsored King, Jr. Library. Is Doing To Our Brains was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize by the India Community Center and India Information: 408-813-8777 nominee and a New York Times bestseller.

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