And so what are your thoughts about screen time at bed and any practices that we should engage in there? Rebecca, tell me your home address. I'm going to come tonight and do a sleep intervention.
And technology is now starting to come back and fix the ailments that technology started with our sleep. Rebecca, if you were stranded on a desert island, you had no one to wake up for, no responsibilities, nothing to do, what time do you think naturally you
Sin embargo, después creció en Argentina y estudió en Estados Unidos, donde actualmente reside. Rebeca es cofundadora y directora general de Rivet Ventures, la cual invierte en compañías lideradas por mujeres. Ya que cree que esto es fundamental y crucial para el crecimiento de estos negocios.
Antes de cofundar Rivet Ventures, Rebeca Hwang fue socia fundadora de YouNoodle, Clean Tech Open y Startup Malaysia. Rebeca estudió en MIT y Stanford. Ha sido reconocida como una de las jóvenes líderes globales del Foro Económico Mundial y como uno de los 35 innovadores globales menores de 35 años por el MIT Tech Review.
Pero, bueno, algún día iremos. Rebeca, contanos un poco de tu espíritu y tu faceta emprendedora. ¿Cuál dirías que es tu motor que te lleva a desarrollar estas nuevas realidades? ¿Cuál es tu propósito al generar estas nuevas compañías de impacto?
Así que los invitamos a dejarnos sus preguntas para Rebeca. Rebeca, imagino que una de tus tareas fundamentales en tus distintos emprendimientos es conformar equipos. ¿Qué valores buscas en la gente que queres que lidere o conforme tus equipos?
But really, the decision-makers are Abraham, Rebecca, and Jacob. Rebecca makes all the major decisions. Tamar, later in the story, in the Joseph story, is critical.
Today at Google we're delighted to welcome Rebecca Kantar. Rebecca is the founder of Imbellus, which is a company that is reinventing the way we think about human potential. Rebecca attended Harvard College, but dropped out at 19 to pursue her career, and has been especially passionate about thinking
Rebecca is the founder of Imbellus, which is a company that is reinventing the way we think about human potential. Rebecca attended Harvard College, but dropped out at 19 to pursue her career, and has been especially passionate about thinking about education in the US and how it pertains to the future of work.
Rebecca comes to us live from Standby. Quick show of hands-- who in this room has actually been to the Standby yet?
Rebecca cats of clean soups welcome thank you I know the weather cleared a little but um when we were planning this event we thought what a perfect time to get
This is what we were talking. Rebecca mentioned Global Forest Watch. Again, transformative. In the old days, I remember talking to President Yudhoyono of Indonesia.
around technology, around data, around understanding. Rebecca alluded to the Explorables project. This is a project that we're working on to try to make especially time series data, whether it's perhaps time series images of the planet or time
Triggers is I think-- social currency is a little pretty intuitive concept. Rebecca Back got it for free because she called her song "Friday." That didn't cost her any money.
Triggers is I think-- social currency is a little pretty intuitive concept. Rebecca Black, not rocket science, but viewed more on Friday because that's a trigger to make it top-of-mind and make people more likely to think about it and share it.
I'll give you another chance. Rebecca Black. Ahmir: Revealer. Anjali: Chick-Fil-A. Ahmir: Sundaes.
Female presenter: So I wanted to introduce all of you to Rebecca MacKinnon who is here to talk about her new book, Consent of the Networked. Rebecca is currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and also a co-founder of Global Voices which is a citizen journalism network and she also had a stint at the Berkman Center at Harvard. But before that Rebecca was a foreign correspondent for CNN in China and Japan and has an incredibly
future. So please give a warm welcome to Rebecca. Rebecca MacKinnon: Thank you. Thank you very much for having me here today.
But then you undermine yourself by going on to point out that the powers that are exerted by government are not well matched with the -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Right. male #1: people who actually vote for them. There also seems to be a contradiction in the very basis that governments maybe it is
male #1: if I analyze what you're saying as closely as I can from what I've heard today, why is the space of solutions so small, why are we talking about governments and corporations Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. male #1: when in fact it looks as if informed decision making is really the problem that we're trying to solve -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum.
get there for a long time. Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. Yeah, well, thanks for that. I lived in China for nine years and so that's definitely something one could talk about
male #2: concept. So I think all of us here, especially people involved in developing products, I wouldn't be surprised if people here feel that like our users actually consent to use us -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. male #2: way more than I, as a citizen, consent to almost -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. male #2: anything my government does.
And so I guess I'm interested to tease out a little bit more, I think that there's something to it I'm just interested to tease out -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. male #2: a little bit more like what, what is the thing that you're worried about that Google doesn't, needs more consent for somehow. Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. Oh that's a really good, that's a really good question.
Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. male #2: a little bit more like what, what is the thing that you're worried about that Google doesn't, needs more consent for somehow. Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. Oh that's a really good, that's a really good question. Yeah and there's obviously a lot of problems with democratic consent as practiced for exactly the reason you point out, that most people are not exercising their ability to reinforce
female #1: So I wanted to ask you a question that is a little bit off the core of your book -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. female #1: which focuses on governments and Internet software companies. I wanted to ask you about some of the developments over the last year that we've learned about in regards to surveillance --
I wanted to ask you about some of the developments over the last year that we've learned about in regards to surveillance -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. female #1: by governments. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. female #1: Blue Coat -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum..
Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum. female #1: by governments. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. female #1: Blue Coat -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum.. female #1: in Syria -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah.
female #1: Cisco in China and that New York Times' story from a couple of weeks ago about Apple and the iPhone which was a -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. female #1: fascinating story, but to me really captured a conversation and a debate that has been going on that predates the Internet.
that has been going on that predates the Internet. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. female #1: It goes down to the whole question of sweat shops -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. female #1: and foreign workers - Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. female #1: What's your take on that?
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Well, I mean the Apple case just to kind of start from there is, Apple is reviled within the socially responsible investment community for exactly
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah, sure, why not.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. male #1: of the governed.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Absolutely, yeah.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. male #1: this clever idea Rebecca MacKinnon: male #1: that if you abolish science education -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: male #1: And -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah, that is a problem.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. male #1: and you don't give them good opinions then they'll act on the bad opinions -- Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah and you manipulate them with kind of quasi --
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: That's a really, that is subject of some other books by some really smart people I know and is a huge matter of debate.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Hum. male #3: for our lives and we tend to build systems that we like and unfortunately some of those systems that we like we can deploy them to the entire world instantaneously with
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Um-hum, yeah.
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Yeah. Well I think part of it is in, I think the first step is recognizing this problem and that something that's really cool and works really well in the context of Mountain View
female #1: that, where companies are based and yet use the labor of companies that are in regimes that are less open. Rebecca MacKinnon: Thank you.
and now, please join me in welcoming Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Rebecca Goldstein: Thank you, Pat, for the introduction and thank you who've come to hear a novelist. That means a lot to me actually.
Not does God exist? Does that make sense? Rebecca: That makes total sense so in this very active, contemporary debate between so called new atheists or just atheists and believers, what's the substance here?
and its values as opposed to something worldwide. Rebecca: Yeah. So it really is about this contemporary debate that's going on, you know? That it's suddenly, and it's quite interesting to a philosopher to have this sort of philosophical discussion, that you talk about in your philosophy classes
when the rationale doesn't sway them or whatever and they keep going that way Rebecca: I would love to hear you explain it and see how close it is to Cass' explanation of why. Umm, well,
It causes such an uncomfortable feeling that it can't be tolerated so answers must be invented rather than saying, "Gee, I don't know." Rebecca: I think that's actually a large part of that and so many of the arguments in the appendix are this is an irresolvable dilemma. This is the argument for free will and the argument of survival after that and just a bunch of arguments.
his way of arguing against a position is always first you show there's no argument for it. Rebecca: I don't know that particular work.
his way of arguing against a position is always first you show there's no argument for it. Rebecca: Well, I am a coward but I do sometimes go on the line and stand by my beliefs.
life that's Rebecca thank you okay so um back to the book the second chapter of this book is called race and and um basically there's this trip called black