SCN: Don't Take Liberties With Our Genes! Free Public Lecture!!!

[Doug Schuler]

This event is  next week in Olympia. Please pass around.
Hope to see you there!

-- Doug

--- snip --------------------


**************************************************************
Please forward to interested people or lists -- particularly
those in the health or legal fields.  Thanks!!
**************************************************************

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
JANUARY 24TH, 2001                   Contact: Doug Schuler, (206)
(206) 634-0752 

                                  
Free Public Lecture 

Don't Take Liberties With Our Genes! 

Wednesday January 24, 2001  
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Lecture Hall 5 
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washingon

We are pleased to announce the next lecture in the 2001 Plato Lecture
Series "Tech Threats:  Exploring New Computer Enabled Challenges" which
brings to light some of the possible downsides to the computer
revolution.


On January 24th 6-7:30 PM, Dr. Phil Bereano, Professor of Technology and
Public Policy: College of Engineering, University of Washington, Board
member of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will lecture at The
Evergreen State College on current threats to civil liberties due to
genetic surveillance and data-banking.

* Do computer systems threaten important values at the same time that
  they provide us with lots of goodies?

Despite the dominant ideology in Western society, technologies are not
value neutral.  They usually facilitate the power of dominant classes
and groups.  Four views about technologies and social change will be
presented and current US society ("corporate liberalism") will be
analyzed in terms of its relationship to technological phenomena. The
development of genetic technologies will be subjected to this view,
especially as regards threats to civil liberties due to genetic
surveillance and data-banking.

* Research for the Human Genome Project while promising medical
  benefits, is sacrificing our privacy, and making eugenics more
  acceptable.

The Plato Lecture series is made possible by royalties from Evergreen
student and faculty software development.  This lecture is sponsored by
the "Community Information Systems" program at TESC.

For more information on this program or the lecture, please contact 
Doug Schuler at (206) 634-0752 or via e-mail at dschuler at evergreen.edu. 

Upcoming Plato Lectures: Langdon Winner, starring in the Autonomous 
Professor Machine (tm) and Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, 
an expose of cyber-libertarianism and dot-com greed. 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *  From the Listowner  * * * * * * * * * * * *
.	To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to:
majordomo at scn.org		In the body of the message, type:
unsubscribe scn
==== Messages posted on this list are also available on the web at: ====
* * * * * * *     http://www.scn.org/volunteers/scn-l/     * * * * * * *