Before co-founding PullString as CEO, Oren was an Entrepreneur in Residence at August Capital. A filmmaker and technologist, he spent more than 20 years at Pixar, most recently as Chief Technical Officer and Director of the Studio Tools group. His feature film credits include Toy Story and Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life, and Supervising Technical Director for Finding Nemo. Oren also helped found Pixar University and taught animation at the Academy of Art College for seven years. Oren currently teaches “Lean Launchpad” courses with Steve Blank at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, and for the NSF. He has been a speaker on panels at SXSW, Sundance, and ToyFair. Oren plans to drop all of this in a heartbeat to become a pro snowboarder the minute that first sponsor shows up.
What Hello Barbie said to Alexa and Siri
Talk, talk, talk. Not only are our devices talking back, but using AI and cloud-based systems, they remember, record, transcribe and even email. And they are doing that as much with children as with adults. Animated and “cognitized” objects are increasingly entering our homes. When combined with personal assistants such as Echo and Siri, interactions, inquisitiveness and simple play are being transformed. What are the safety, security and privacy issues? And what will all this digital stimulation do to our brains and the development of our children?
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MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
