Technology has become deeply entrenched in our daily lives. We think it's time to take a closer look at our relationship with these devices.
Baratunde Thurston, Jacob Park and Megan Kashner will dive into this topic during a session called #Unplug and Look Up: Re-examining Our Future Relationship With Technology at the Social Good Summit later this month.
The theme for the 2013 Social Good Summit is #2030NOW, and we'll be focused on how we can use digital to pave the way for a brighter future by 2030.
Baratunde Thurston is the CEO and co-founder of Cultivated Wit. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black and served for five years as director of digital for satirical news outlet The Onion. Thurston co-founded the black political blog Jack and Jill Politics, advised the Obama White House and has a decade of experience in standup comedy.
Thurston will be joined by Jacob Park, the Forum for the Future's principal sustainability advisor. Park focuses on using scenario thinking to help people imagine more sustainable futures -- and to design collaborative and mindful strategies to achieve them.
Thurston and Park will be joined at the Social Good Summit by influencers and activists such as Al Gore, actor Ian Somerhalder and Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal.
What role can unplugging from technology play in planning for #2030NOW? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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The Social Good Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions and is brought to you by Mashable, The 92nd Street Y, The United Nations Foundation, The United Nations Development Programme, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Ericsson. Held during UN Week, the Social Good Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges.
Date: Sept. 22 through Sept. 24
Time: 12 to 6 p.m. each day
Location: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y.
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