to his left is sarah m watson. she is a technology critic who writes and speaks about emerging issues in the intersection of technology her work has appeared in the atlantic. she is an affiliate with the brooklyn client center and author of the center for journalism. in the current state of journalism. and then of course to the right is chris couch. as science journalists who i've have the opportunity to work with for several years now. she's also the court needed for the commission communications form. heart bylines have appeared in no but next. we have also for your convenience put all of their twitter handles on the board and without further ado i will turn it over to chris. sorry about that in addition to that book. we have a book have of the it media lab it's also a great book. both of those are available immediately. now without further ado. >> think you all for being here. we are so excited about this panel i feel like it addresses a lot of really important issues i want to kick off this penal by talking abo