Joining me today in
the studio is Giovanni Zelko the
Executive Producer, Director, and Screenwriter of the new international
thriller called The Algerian
which is all about a young man who comes to the US to commit a suicide bombing
to avenge the deaths of his parents, but after arriving in the country he
starts meeting people in Los Angeles who don't live up the stereotype he was
sold, and he has to decide what to do. The movie stresses acceptance, embracing
diversity and co-existence, using culture to make this point and Giovanni joins
me to talk all about it. You can follow Giovanni on twitter.
It seems we are all
aware of the fact that in this new digital age corporations are racing to
collect more and more personal data about our behaviors, needs, and desires,
but what you may not be aware of is how they are using all this data. In their new book In All You Can Pay: How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets,
Anna Bernasek and D. T. Mongan show how companies use
what they know about us to determine how much we are willing to pay for
everything we buy. From college tuition to plane tickets to groceries to
medicine, companies already set varying prices based on intimate knowledge of
individual wants and purchasing power. They argue although we may think that
the Internet lets us find the best deals, the extensive information companies
have about us means that the price we see tends toward the maximum they know we
can pay. D.T. joins me today to talk all
about the book.
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