Mon, 06 Nov 2006

Coming to terms with computers

BERKELEY (NNA) – A conference to investigate the way we use computers and to create greater awareness of their influence is being planned for next summer in the USA.

According to the organisers, Binary Being, the three-day symposium entitled “Staying human in the computer age” intends to explore the topic “how to foster humanity in a machine based society.”

The conference is sponsored by the Bay Area Centre for Waldorf Teacher Training in Sausalito, California, and will take place from 26-29 July 2007 at the University of California campus in Berkeley. Anyone booking early from November 1 to December 31 of this year will be given a significant discount, the organisers say.

The Binary Being website says that the conference will consist of several elements, including keynote speeches, conversation groups and artistic activities.

“Most of us use computers everyday and would be hard-pressed to imagine a world without the productivity, accessibility, and ingenuity these machines seem to bring into our lives,” the website says.

“But, do we really know what we are doing with this technology? Do we know how this technology is affecting us?

“The purpose of the conference is to create an opportunity to consider this topic; where participants, inspired by the keynote speeches and the dramatic presentations and engaged in artistic activities can contemplate these and other related questions, and start a dialogue leading toward to a more conscious relationship with the computer.” Binary Being says.

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Link: www.binarybeing.org

Item: 061106-01EN Date: 6 November 2006

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