CNN's Van Jones Speaks on Tech's Digital "Cotton Pickers"

When CNN’s Van Jones took the stage at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church at the behest of Ben and Felicia Horowitz, he didn’t mince words. “How many of you guys have a smartphone? How many of you have downloaded an app? How many of you have uploaded one?” he asked the audience of about 200 Glide regulars and friends of the Horowitz’s. Few in the audience raised their hands. “You know why? ’Cause you’re suckers,” he continued. “Here you are, moving your thumbs around, you’re so cool, making other people money. You know what we used to call that? Picking cotton, picking fruit in the field. Nothing wrong with it. But you deserve to be more than just digital cotton pickers in the information age. You need to be uploading and not downloading. Your genius should be tapped.”