Thursday, Nov. 5th, 2015
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Columbia Global Centers | East Asia
1 F, Core Plaza, No.1 Shanyuan Street, Zhongguancun
Haidian District, Beijing, China
北京市海淀区中关村西区善缘街1号立方庭底商26号 Directions

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Columbia Global Centers | East Asia is hosting a public talk on the effects of internet technology on society. We have invited Clay Shirky, a best-selling author, to explore how our daily lives are constantly being transformed by technology. This talk will focus on insights into the current shift from products to services in the market to help us make sense of today’s dizzying pace of change. The talk will be also held in the context of Clay Shirky’s newly published book LITTLE RICE: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream, where he looks at how the story of a homegrown phone that became globally “cool” is actually entwined with the economic future of China—as its people become richer, empowered, and more connected.

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Columbia Global Reports 
Columbia Global Reports is a new publishing imprint that’s commissioning authors to do original on-site reporting around the globe, and aim to combine the immediacy and narrative power of journalism with the intellectual ambition and acuity of scholarship. The books will be on a wide range of political, financial, scientific, and cultural topics—stories and ideas that matter, which offer new ways to look at and understand the world that can be read in a few hours. MORE

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Columbia University Global Centers | East Asia.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Light refreshments will be provided. Please click here to see more information as it becomes available.

Clay Shirky 
Dr.Clay Shirky is associate professor at NYU Shanghai. He is the author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010) and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (2008). His writings appear frequently in The New York Times, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review, and his TED Talks have been viewed by millions. He currently lives in Shanghai. MORE