TEDxYouth@Monterey - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Secrets of the Blogging Forest Monks

Alex is an historian and futurist of science, a visiting fellow in Stanford's Peace Innovation Lab, and an associate fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. In spring 2011 he was a visiting fellow at Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge, England, where he developed a framework for contemplative computing, an approach to information technologies that promotes mindfulness and concentration in users. He is currently writing a book titled "Taming the Digital Monkey: From Perpetual Distraction to Contemplative Computing." In this talk we travel with Alex to the island of Sri Lanka to reflect on the sources of digital distraction.

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[soojungpang]

@MmmSauceNeal Thanks! I'll keep my fingers crossed....

[MmmSauceNeal]

I would LOOOOVE to see a full on TED talk from Alex!