Tiffany Shlain Growing Up the Internet
b'When Tiffany Shlain thinks of her favorite quote from naturalist John Muir, she thinks of the internet: \\u201cWhen you tug at a single thing in the universe, you find it\\u2019s attached to everything else.\\u201d As a filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards \\u2014 the \\u201cOscars of the internet\\u201d \\u2014 she is committed to reframing technology as an expression of the best of what humanity is capable, with all the complexity that entails. With her young family, she has helped popularize the practice of the \\u201ctech shabbat\\u201d \\u2014 24 unplugged hours each week. Her perspective on our technology-enhanced lives is ultimately a purposeful and enriching one: the internet is our global brain, towards which we can apply all the wisdom we are gaining about the brains in our heads and the character in our lives.'