Staying Human in a High-Tech World

Recorded Live: Sunday, March 2, 2003, 9:30 am PST

G U E S T S :

• Thomas Mahon
  Technology Speaker and Author, Charged Bodies
   
• The Rev. Heng Sure
  Abbot of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery

Moderated by : The Very Rev. Alan Jones
Dean of Grace Cathedral

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About the Program:

Is technology responsible for less face time and more gated communities? Is it leading us to a new feudalism based on intellectual property, favoring a knowledge-based elite to the exclusion of so many without adequate education, health care or affordable housing? Some believe that advanced communication technology, while connecting us to the larger world, is isolating us from our local communities.

 
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