he's a huge dave eggers fan. en i start to understand how great of an author he was and how lucky i was to have someone like him tell my story. it's been wonderful. >> finally, dave, he mentioned you don't have wifi. famously you wrote the book "the circle" about the intrusion of technology into our lives. that was a good few years before we realized how intrusive it's been in every aspect, including elections. tell me what you're feeling right now about that. >> i intended with that book to scare the pants off the media and everyone i knew, but it got much more sinister and much more terrifying in the years after. i had no idea. i wrote speculatively about how the internet might affect democracies but i had no idea it would actually happen to such a degree. i'm far more scared and almost paralyzed with fear now. but i find it all so disspiriting that the only way sometimes to deal with it is to try to greatly limit our participation in the internet, limit our exposure to it as much as possible, which is one of th

mokhtar alkanshali, dave eggers the new book is "the monk of mokha."u thank th very much for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> woodruff: and we'll be back but first, from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your support, which helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations staying with us, we take a second look at efforts to teach tolerance to the very youngest students. special correspondent cat wise visited a pair of noteworthy programs in californiaast fall. >> we're going to take out the mirror now and look at ourselves ad make our own face. >> reporter: in thlameda california preschoon, a box of crwith a multitude of colors is helping little kids arn big lessons. >> put your hand inside and see whats best for you. >> reporter: teacher tiffani battle asks the children to look carefully at tir own skin color and their classmates' skin colors, and to note differences and similarities. >> i'm black and white. >> reporter: the artroject is just one of many ways children are introduced tan anti-bias curriculum

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