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The following event may be of interest to you:
Lecture: Shaping Technologies that Affect Our Lives – An Emerging Human Right?
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Presented by Langden Winner, Thomas Phelan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and co-director of the Center for Cultural Design, Rensellear Polytechnic Institute
Today we recognize that technologies of many kinds have the power to affect our well being in fundamental ways. But seldom has the right to participate in the shaping of crucial technologies been upheld as one of the basic human rights. How can we explain the silence that surrounds this issue? What is involved in moving this question onto the agenda of humanity's central concerns?
Praised by The Wall Street Journal as "The leading academic on the politics of technology," Prof. Winner is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he serves as co-director of the newly founded Center for Cultural Design. Mr. Winner is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. In the early 1980s he was consultant on Godfrey Reggio's film "Koyaanisqatsi." Mr. Winner's views on social, political and environmental issues appear regularly in Tech Knowledge Revue, published in the on-line journal "NetFuture". His satires, including The Masked Marauders and Automatic Professor Machine (available on his website at www.langdonwinner.org), appear on occasion, sometimes announced, sometimes not. In May 2005 Langdon gave the Tenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture for the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge on the topic: "Technology Studies for Terrorists: A Short Course".
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102
Sponsor: Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
Phone: 845-758-7296
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