Why I am at MATC

Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with. https://www.ted.com/talks/zachary_r_wood_why_it_s_worth_listening_to_people_we_disagree_with Zachary R. Wood spoke about the advantages of listening to opposing views and learning from them. He has been subject to racism and elitism and still believes that there is something to learn from those views. He spoke about his upbringing and how it shaped who he had to be then and who he is now. His mother taught him to look at both sides because life is "complex, controversial and forever changing." Here are my thoughts on his talk and there's a lot to agree with. Life is complex. Issues that people consider black and white usually have a lot of gray in them. It's easy to pigeonhole those you disagree with, but it's hard to try to understand the issue from their viewpoint. Life is controversial. From abortion, nuclear disarmament, violence and/or nudity on television and interfaith marriage, to politics, r...

https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/661?autostart=false - April 15, 2018 Episode 662 The tech talk panel of Leo Laporte, Jason Hiner and Lindsey Turrentine, along with Amy Webb via satellite, discussed Mark Zuckerberg appearing before Congress. It's been interesting to watch the way things have played out with Facebook in the last several weeks. The big news has been the policies of how information of people that use Facebook was used by outside companies and political entities. From CEO Mark Zuckerberf admitting that information was used by Cambridge Analytica to now appearing at Congressional hearings. The almost laughable part (if there is anything to laugh about) was the way Congressmen seemed very clueless on how Facebook, and even technology in general, actually works. From one Congressman asking Zuckerberg how they were able to make money and not understanding how advertisers in online apps works...to Orin Hatch asking if Facebook and Twitter were the same t...