Fireside Chat with Libbie Grant & Judith Donath

Join author Libbie Grant as she chats with Internet and Identity Scholar Judith Donath about her new novel THE ENDED WORLD!
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Libbie Grant's THE ENDED WORLD:

A young woman’s vision over a Quebec lake sends her on a search to understand her relationship to the divine. While she spends years as a cloistered nun, a young boy struggles with his Mormon upbringing and, discovering the internet, grows up to design an AI entity that stuns him by appearing sentient. Embarking on their own separate road trips, these characters unite to face the scope of their responsibilities, their understanding of what’s holy, and the very question of what it is to be a human being. Steeped in philosophy, theology, and computer science, THE ENDED WORLD is a novel for our times.

Judith Donath is a writer, designer and artist whose work focuses on the co-evolution of technology and society. She has published numerous articles about social media, AI, ethics and anonymity, and is the author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online (MIT Press). As the former director of the MIT Media Lab's Sociable Media Group, she and her students designed innovative interfaces for on-line communities; their art projects examining the future of identity, privacy and mediated life have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. Currently, she is a faculty fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and is writing a book about technology, trust and deception.