[RRE]Conference: Technological Visions

PhilZ Pontificates. Philm at 11.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:41:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Kearney <kearney@scf-fs.usc.edu
Subject: Technological Visions: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Technological Visions: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives

A USC Annenberg Center for Communication convened by the Annenberg
Schools for Communication, University of Southern California and the
University of Pennsylvania

November 6 and 7, 1998 Davidson Conference Center, University of
Southern California

Technological Visions: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives will bring
together journalists, academics, cyberculture advocates,
policymakers, and science fiction visionaries to examine how
technologies have been envisioned throughout history and the social
impact of new technologies. The conference will explore ways of
considering contemporary new technologies in light of how new
technologies were represented and debated in the past. It intends to
address the ahistorical nature of the public discourse of new
technology and to encourage discussion across the boundaries of the
social realms of academic, media, and industry on the impact of new
technologies.

Sherry Turkle, Professor of Sociology of Science at MIT and author
of Life on the Screen will give the keynote speech: Are the
discourses surrounding the Internet a better guide to social action
than those formulated in the early days of "old" technologies? Have
we learned anything from the successes and failures of past attempts
to predict what technology will do for us and to us?

Panels:

The Problems and Potentials of Prediction
Privacy and Censorship
Communities of Place and Cyberspace
Media Discourse on New Technology
Technological Visions

Confirmed Participants:

John Perry Barlow, Lord Asa Briggs, Richard Chabran, Bob Cringely,
Wendy Grossman, Katie Hafner, Larry Irving, Peter Lyman, Carolyn
Marvin, David Nye, Mitchel Resnick, Romelia Salinas, Vivian
Sobchack, Lynn Spigel, Sherry Turkle, Langdon Winner, Philip
Zimmermann

Conference Organizers: Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Marita Sturken,
Douglas Thomas, Annenberg School for Communication

Conference Information:

The conference is free and open to the public. It will be held at
the Davidson Conference Center on the USC campus in downtown Los
Angeles. The conference proceedings will be simulcast on the
Metamorphosis web site.

For further information and updated schedules: www.metamorph.org

For more information, contact:

Douglas Thomas
(213) 740-3937
douglast@usc.edu

Marita Sturken
(213) 740-3950
sturken@usc.edu

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

>The Problems and Potentials of Prediction
>Privacy and Censorship
>Communities of Place and Cyberspace
>Media Discourse on New Technology
>Technological Visions
>
>Confirmed Participants:
>
>John Perry Barlow, Lord Asa Briggs, Richard Chabran, Bob Cringely,
>Wendy Grossman, Katie Hafner, Larry Irving, Peter Lyman, Carolyn
>Marvin, David Nye, Mitchel Resnick, Romelia Salinas, Vivian
>Sobchack, Lynn Spigel, Sherry Turkle, Langdon Winner, Philip
>Zimmermann

Mostly journalists and scribblers. Typical. Journalists yakking with other
journalists on the same boring panels.

As with the 24/7 coverage of the Lewinsky matter on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox,
and other networks, it is mostly journalists pontificating with other
journalists.

Oddly, though, this one is not in the usual place, Washington, D.C.

--Tim May



Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash.
---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES:   831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Licensed Ontologist         | black markets, collapse of governments.

>Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash.

If you reformat the drives, there's no need to empty the trash.

Steve Bryan
Vendorsystems International
email: sbryan@vendorsystems.com
icq: 5263678
pgp fingerprint: D758 183C 8B79 B28E 6D4C  2653 E476 82E6 DA7C 9AC5

Steve Bryan writes:
> Tim May
> >Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash.
> 
> If you reformat the drives, there's no need to empty the trash.

I suspect the quote was meant to imply that the "trash" would get
overwritten with 0s (or as this is cypherpunks overwritten with high
quality random number output, multiple times!)

(And if you want to be nitpicky about the metaphor, reformatting
doesn't overwrite with 0s, typically, so the trash and all would still
be there.)

Adam