The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe
New York
Wed Oct 14
7:00–8:30 PMColumbia University
Tow Center for Digital JournalismAuthor Gary Wolf in Conversation with Nicholas Thompson
Join Gary Wolf and Nicholas Thompson for a wide-ranging conversation about science, technology, and media in the 21st century. Based on nearly two decades of research in the Quantified Self community, Wolf's groundbreaking new book argues that science is for everybody. But as digital tools increasingly guide highly personal decisions, how much can we trust what our robots say?
Gary Wolf
Gary Wolf is the cofounder of the Quantified Self movement and author of The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe. A former member of the early editorial team at WIRED and executive editor of Wired Digital, Wolf is a Kavli Science Journalism Award winner and former Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Nicholas Thompson
Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic. He hosts the podcast "The Most Interesting Thing in AI" and is the author of The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of WIRED and editor of NewYorker.com.