Jesse Draper and Tiffany Shlain: Connecting Through Technology (VIDEO)
Are you addicted to your smartphone? Do you constantly need to check your e-mail? Is it hard for you to unplug from technology for even a day? ‘Valley Girl Show’ host Jesse Draper gets to the bottom of these questions and more when she interviews filmmaker, director and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain on technology, motherhood, entrepreneurship and even hula-hooping!
Note: The above video is a Valley Girl Show production
Tiffany Shlain
Shlain’s feature-length film is an exhilarating story about our interpersonal and technological relationships in the 21st century. Equal parts documentary and memoir, the film unfolds during a year in which technology and science literally becomes a matter of life and death for the director.
Related: genConnect Interviews Tiffany Shlain on “Connected” debut
“The film tackles what it means to be connected in the 21st century both globally and personally. We really want to get people talking,” Shlain told Draper. “We’re moving so quickly and our lives are changing so quickly, it’s the perfect moment to just stop and say, ‘What’s the potential of all these technologies?’ and ‘When is it not good to plug-in?’”
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