INFUSION Lunch
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison St., Berkeley
Noon - 1:00 Catered Lunch, RSVP requested, (details below)
12:30 - 1:30 Turkle speaks and signs copies of her book, which will be for sale. Her talk is free and open to the public.
How does the Internet affect our approach to intimacy? That's a subject of the latest book by prolific author and speaker Sherry Turkle, a psychiatrist, sociologist, and professor of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book is titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Turkle maintains we "confuse the scattershot postings on a Facebook wall with authentic communication." Some might have said the same thing about the writing on the back of a postcard, when postcards were first created. But if you'd like to find out her reasoning about the shallowness to which the Internet has driven us, and if you'd even like to verbally joust with her in real time, please join us.
From 12noon to 12:30, lunch is catered by The Bread Workshop and served in the lobby. $15 at the door ($10 for students). For lunch, RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com.
Thanks to sponsorship from the Berkeley Startup Cluster, Freight & Salvage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
The Berkeley Startup Cluster (BSC) is a collaboration between the UC Berkeley, City of Berkeley, Downtown Berkeley Association, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, the East Bay Green Corridor and private sector companies. Launched in October 2010, the BSC's goal is to establish the area in Downtown Berkeley -- that is walking distance to the Cal campus -- as a thriving destination for technology-oriented startups as well as tech-oriented established companies, investors, entrepreneurs and supporting businesses. The BSC was inspired by the vision of UC Berkeley and LBNL innovation driving local economic development, and doing it in a way that offers the additional benefit of bolstering the University's research and education mission.
Currently, the BSC is pursuing three primary initiatives:
1. Growing the number of BSC tenants by promoting office space (including incubator space) near the campus that is conducive to R&D-oriented startups;
2. Building community, relationships and opportunities for the BSC tenants by orchestrating networking events; and
3. Bolstering UC Berkeley's research and education mission by connecting the BSC community to the UC Berkeley and LBNL innovation ecosystem.
In pursuing these three initiatives, the BSC intends to become the natural home for startup companies spinning out of the Campus and LBNL, and other entrepreneurs. The emergence of the BSC will decrease the innovation-drain that Berkeley has historically experienced, and thereby bring more jobs to Berkeley, augment the City's tax base, and improve the commercial climate for other businesses -- including retail, restaurants and entertainment venues.
