TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE


PROMO FOR   "You Are What You Read"
*Concerned that your family never spends time together as a family? 
Sure, everyone is connected.  There are computers all over the house.
Everyone has a cell phone and the number of text messages on the last
bill frankly blew you away.  But are you connected to each other?  In
this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet William Powers. He
thinks he's got a remedy.  The Internet Sabbath. On Friday night, he
unplugs his modem, and the family stays off line until Monday.  Even his
12 year old son urges his friends to leave their phones in the house
when they go out to play.  Powers says today's digital chaos is nothing
new.  Every communications advance required a period of adjustment. 

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "You Are What You Read"

0:00 -15    SEGMENT 1: (15:24)
            William Powers wrote "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical
            Philosophy for Building A Good Life in the Digital Age"
            because he feared people were getting lost in their
            electronic worlds.  Powers tells Anne Strainchamps that
            the challenges of our new technologies are just the
            latest versions of problems we've faced every time
            technology changes. Sooner or later, we adjust and learn
            better ways to use our tools. Powers favors an Internet
            Sabbath at his house, even for his 12 year old son.  
                         
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

15:24 - 15:53  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

15:54 - 39:17       SEGMENT 2: (23:25)
            Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service
            in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in
            his life as a soldier.  His memoir is "The Junior
            Officers Reading Club."  Also, Timothy Ryback is a
            Holocaust scholar and cofounder of the Institute for
            Historical Justice and Reconciliation in Paris.  He's
            also the author of "Hitler's Private Library: The Books
            That Shaped His Life."  Ryback tells Steve Paulson the
            shocking truth that the two books that most influenced
            Hitler's thinking were American.
                         
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

39:18 - 39:47       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

39:48 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (13:11)
            Amitav Ghosh was born in India and educated in Delhi and
            at Oxford.  He's the author of many award winning novels,
            as well as non-fiction and essays. The first book in is
            new trilogy is "Sea of Poppies." Ghosh tells Jim Fleming
            that English has been a global language for 200 years and
            cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in
            the Oxford English Dictionary. And he reads sections from
            his book.
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo

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