AIF Blog - Technology
June 17, 2011
There are plenty of ways to enjoy the Aspen Ideas Festival, whether on campus or in the comfort of your home! For starters, during the week of the festival, we’ll live-stream a number of our sessions here. Also watch our Aspen Ideas Blog for daily highlights and video clips from the Festival!VISIT:Capture the wisdom of our speakers or share those that mattered most to you by going here:The Aspen Institute has...
March 11, 2011
In our turbulent world of uprisings and natural disasters, social and mobile media are playing a vital role in connecting people. From protesters using Twitter to organize and Facebook posts serving as a way for friends and family to spread the word about the tsunami in Japan (see FB map here), the impact and utility of both are staggering. Even the US State Department used Twitter last week to inform Americans how...
February 05, 2011
We’ll take a closer look at Our Digital Universe: Social Media, Mobile Media in an upcoming post, but we can’t resist acknowledging social media’s impact on the Egyptian Revolution. Click here to see a series of photos that show the major role Facebook, Twitter and mobile devices played during the protests. Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams talked at length about Twitter’s effect on the mass protests in...
December 10, 2010
With a spate of new 3D movies out this holiday season, where is technology and the movie industry headed? Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of DreamWorks, the world's largest animation studio, talks about the movie biz, 3D sports broadcasting, the roll of 3D in storytelling and even holograms, at the 2010 Festival.