AIF2010: Living Digitally

We all love information, and research tells us we want more of it - all the time. But Google doesnt know us. IS too much of a good thing manageable? How do we intelligently connect the dots?

On President Obama's first day in office, he signed a memorandum on Open Government, committing all the departments and agencies to \"transparency, participation, and collaboration.\" The result was www.data.gov, which went public in May 2009 and quickly had 64 million hits. When the White House makes government information public, who notices and why do we care?

Facebook hs more than 400 million users worldwide who cumulatively spend more than 500 billion minutes on the site each month. Fortune Magazine's veteran technology editor David Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it's going next.

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Moderator Matthew Bishop

Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito recently completed a three-year study on the way today\\\'s youth use social media to learn, create, socialize, and discover their passions - and now it's the basis for the Macarthur Foundation's effect to re-examine education and to create new kinds of learning.

In the modern age, there has been an explosion of information - and an ability for the average person to keep up. For the first time in human history, we are approaching a world with trillions of networked nodes; the amount of information is doubling every year and accelerating every second. And yet, as we stand before this growing mountain of complexity, our brains are no larger than our grandfathers'. Luckilym while civilization has never faced such an unprecedented challenge, nature has.

Is Social Media Transforming Journalism?

Global affairs with the founders of Twitter.