\"What is Technology for Anyway?\"

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Wednesday February 10, 2010
      3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Location: Clary Theater, Student Success Center
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Contact
Carol Silvers
Ivan Allan College of Liberal Arts
Contact Carol Silvers
Summaries

Summary Sentence: John de Graaf, Guest speaker, SPP and HTS

Full Summary: John de Graaf Guest speaker, School of Public Policy and School of History, Technology and Society. Co-author of “Affluenza": The All-consuming Epidemic” "What is Technology for Anyway?" Advances in economic productivity give us choices and

John de Graaf
Guest speaker, School of Public Policy and School of History, Technology and Society.

Co-author of “Affluenza": The All-consuming Epidemic”

"What is Technology for Anyway?" Advances in economic productivity give us choices and the simplest one is: more time or more stuff? John de Graaf argues that we must begin to trade productivity advances for more free time instead of more material goods if we are to be free as individuals and to be sustainable as a society.

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

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Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
hts, John de Graaf, public policy
Status
  • Created By: Rebecca Keane
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jun 21, 2010 - 12:34pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 9:51pm