Graduation season has come and gone, and a few commencement addresses have risen to the top of the optimistic consciousness.  Joss Whedon said something about everybody dying.  At least one high school speaker ripped up his speech and recited the Lord’s Prayer.  Then that cool rendition of David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon address made it big on YouTube before being taken down.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything’s Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) spoke at Middlebury College’s graduation and said some interesting things about technology and death and life.  It’s couched in some interesting banter about the college president and the story of a young girl yelling into her phone.  I think it’s worth the viewing and listen.  He maneuvers through a real “either-or” when it comes to technology and “the moment.”  Check it out.