But there's a lot that the US has been doing to increase access for people with disabilities, both in the physical world, and in the online, digital world. Eunice is asking, do you know how the situation is in other countries?How do, for example, non-Latin people use Braille display?
funny when I do readings often and couples come up to me -- "I'm Lenny." And the woman is like, ""and I'm Eunice ." Gary: And the Lenny says all she does is shop online all day long.Gary: And she's like, "yeah, that's what I do." Female Presenter: yeah, that's me Gary: I'm like you guys are the best. Thank you for existing.
rating or something like that. So you're constantly being judged wherever you go. And everyone tries to improve their ratings. In fact, when Lenny starts going out with Eunice who's really cute, his rankings go up a lot. Female Presenter: Yeah, so it's all pretty relative. I mean, you walk into a room and depending on how many people are in the
from a different mind set than my own; who's from a different gender obviously, different race, different -- the only thing that was -- that felt familiar to me in writing the Eunice character was that she was a daughter of immigrants with all the nightmarish stuff that come packaged with the crazy parents insisting you should do this and that. Even in this future where law isn't much of a career choice. There's only three careers left -- media,
want me to sign their iPads which I find to be adorable. A lot of the Eunices have them and the Lennys will have the old books. And I'm fine with both people you know. Now, this is my professor mode -- scientists show that reading comprehension off a screen is about 9 to 10 percent less than
Like, we measure the ways carbon dioxide traps heat in labs all the time. Something we’ve been doing ever since Eunice Newton Foote placed glass cylinders of it in direct sunlight and observed how it heated it much more quickly than a cylinder with ordinary air.
Female Presenter: And what made you decide to write this from a diary and personal memoir kind of standpoint. So you have Lenny writing the diary and Eunice -- it's kind of like through her global teens account which is a mix of e-mail and chat and Twitter type messages.
male protagonists. And then in this book, I think, it's your first love story. It's also your first female -- one of the lead characters. With Eunice Park. So how did you decide to write a love story this time. Gary: Well, I thought that it would be. One of my inspirations was Orwell's 1984. The two big novels – the great
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American background. And the real difference between the two is that Lenny is an immigrant from the analog age. He still reads books. He still cares about literature very much and Eunice is purely digital. All she does is shop online. In this future there is no journalism. There's no reading. All that's left is this app-arat which is worn as a pendant around your neck. And what it does is it
and chat and Twitter type messages. Gary: Yeah, in fact one of the challenges was because Eunice -- well Eunice is one of the smartest people in this future, because she can still write in complete sentences which is very rare. Lenny calls her 'my reluctant sentence monger' because she has a subject and a predicate, usually, and he's really impressed by that. Again it's an
evolution of it in fact um of it and his whole journey in fact uh I tell a story or two about the women in the book but one of the things is interesting is I had such access to Professor Eunice particularly in the early 90s um and the late 80s is that actually this book is being I I learned is being
fall apart so next Tuesday or so. And it can. The previous books I've written have all been about immigrants. Usually immigrants from Russia which is where I was born. But in this case, the characters -- there's two characters – Lenny, who's of Russian background, and Eunice , who's of Korean American background. And the real difference between the two is that Lenny is an immigrant from the analog age.
Gary reads Tolstoy in the original Russian. League campuses where they were discussing my book and the student said, "you know? I really identify with Eunice and the way she's speaks but I had a lot of trouble