Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Michael Hawley visits Hofstra

Just a week ago Michael Hawley gave a talk at Hofstra University.  Here's the PR info:

The week begins with a keynote address by digital pioneer, Michael Hawley of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.  Dr. Hawley has had an extraordinary career as a computer scientist, musician, entrepreneur, and activist, including important collaborations with George Lucas at Lucasfilm, and with Steve Jobs at Next Computing.


Michael Hawley's Bhutan book 

News story on the Bhutan book

In his talk, Hawley focused on what he called the development of the "City Planet"--that would be us on earth--and how this continuing migration to cities is changing (for the better for the most part) our life on the planet.