part of how we say thank you for buying your book at harvard bookstore. your purchases make nice events possible, so thank you. i would also like to thank you in advance and gently remind you to ideally turn off at a minimum silence your cell phones for the duration of tonight's event. some phones will probably go off and you will feel so superior that it's your neighbors and not yours. tonight we are joined by maryanne wolf, visiting professor at ucla where she heads up the center for dyslexia and social justice and is no stranger to for many years she served as a professor of citizenship and public service and director for the center for reading and language and development. she has been honored with multiple research and teaching honors including fulbright fellowship of the american psychological association of teaching award and cofounded curious learning global literacy initiative. you may also be familiar with her last book. since the dawn of time or at least the 60s we've been told tv rots our brains and in the digital era has entered our lexicon,

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part of how we say thank you for buying books at harvard bookstore and supporting this event series, your purchases make this event possible so thank you. i would like to thank you in advance and remind you to turn off, at minimum silence your cell phones for the duration, someone's phone will go off and you will feel so superior. is your neighbor's and not yours. if you turn those off, that will be great. we are joined by maryanne wolf, visiting professor at ucla where she had to present for dyslexia, diverse learners and social justice. will is no stranger, she's from the john dimaggio, director of the center for reading and language development. she has been honored with multiple research and teaching honors including the fulbright fellowship, and the american teaching award and she cofounded curious learning, a global literacy initiative. you may also be familiar with her last book, tales of illiteracy for the twentieth century. since the donald time or at least the 1960s pundits have been telling us tv rot our brains and that in the digital era, screen time, have entered our lex

we are pleased to host this event at harvard bookstore, please join me in welcoming joanne mcneil andkendra albert. [applause] >> to start i have a brief reading. i will stand up. just a short passage that will give you a sense of the style of the book, this is an issue after called sharing. at the time of the first iphone launch - sorry. around the time of its first smartphone launch in 2007 it was possible if unwise to talk about apple as an underdog, and adopt their own narrative, hold ever since famous 1984 inspired super bowl commercial directed by ridley scott describing taxing big brother with a sledgehammer. in 2007 apple was ranked 367 on fortune's global 500. 10 years later it was ninth on the list. between berkshire hathaway and on mobile. with the iphone, apple was off to the races. in 2010, apple sold 40 million and by 2014, 179 million. the company unique for its design product to develop a universally acclaimed gadget in function and appearance. the iphone was gorgeous, and intimate acquaintance. in time, loss of human lives associated with the iphone's creation. from t

we are so pleased to host this event here at harvard bookstore tonight, please welcome me joining joanne mcneil and kendra alberts. [applause] i thought to start i have a really brief reading i'd like to do? should i read there? or here? or see that it's up to you. smack i will stand up it's just a short passage but it will give you a sense of the style of the book. this is in a chapter called sharing. around the time of its first iphone launch -- sorry, around the time of its first smart phone launch into thousand seven, it was possible, if unwise, to talk about apple as an underdog. and adopt the corporations own narrative, a holdover 1984 inspired super bowl commercial directed by scott featuring a spy bond braun racing to attack with a sledgehammer. ten years later is ninth on the list. between berkshire hathaway and exxon mobil. with the iphone, apple was off the bases in 2010 and by 2014, sales were just shy of 170 million. now the figure is north of 200 million new apple phones each year. the company, unique for its fastidious design, developed a near universally acclaimed gadget

please join me to welcome melvin urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] >> thank you. as a historian my mentor always told me to start with a story. here is a story. in an eastern european villag village, two peasants got into a fight. they couldn't resolve the issue between them and one of them said let's go to the rabbi. whatever the rabbi says will be the solution. the other one says that is good. i trust the rabbi. and he says myours out h son, you are right. he leaves in the second president comes in and pours out his heart and the rabbi says my son you are right. at which point the rabbi who is been sitting there saying you both told both of them they are right and he said you are right also. and that is affirmative-action. to know that i was conflicted a part of affirmative-action that i like and there are parts that i think are not good at all. this would have been an easy book to write if i had just stuck with the supreme court cases. it would been one tenth of the size and i would have been done a long time ago. but i had to do with a lot of things. so if you

i am clear in behalf of harvard bookstore, thank you for joining with an event with maryanne wolf who is here to discuss her new book "reader, come home" the reading brain and the digital world, before we dive and i want to take a moment to let you know about our upcomingeron events, t means one thing, fiction fridays, for the rest of august, in-store new fiction purchases will be 15% off every friday for members of the frequent buyer program. next monday the 13th we will welcome jack davis in the book the making of an american c. on wednesday the 15th roy scranton will be in conversatiow with andrew to discuss the new book we're doomed, now what. essay on war and climate change pre-those events begin at 7:00 p.m. right here in theebo bookstore. when labor day around the corner, the fall of the season is about to kick off, we will welcome authors like john kerry, deborah, joe, walter mosley and many others. you can learn more about these and all of her upcoming events on our website just harvard.com/event or on the yellow flyers. after this talk will have time for questions from the a

i am clear in behalf of harvard bookstore, thank you for joining with an event with maryanne wolf who is here to discuss her new book "reader, come home" the reading brain and the digital world, before we dive and i want to take a moment to let you know about our upcomingeron events, t means one thing, fiction fridays, for the rest of a