Connecting OutThere - 19th May 2009

After Mind Mapping, it is onto the mind-stretching side of the agenda. We've heard about how social networking and virtual worlds are extending the boundaries of the workplace, with important implications for how we work in the post-Internet ear.

In this talk, Dr Stephen Thomas will explore how recent developments in digital biology are set to have even more profound social impacts on everything from longevity to identity itself. These developments are different in kind to what has gone before, for they are about us, not just our surrounding technologies.

Did you know, for example, that you don't own your own DNA?

How come I have less DNA than an amoeba? What will it mean to be 500 years old? What is 'personalized medicine'? Where will my digital identity begin and end? Is my brain me? Is morality pre-determined? Will there be room left for religion? Is science boring?

For complete and perfect answers to these simple questions and what they mean for you, just turn up and relax.
It is going to be fascinating and provocative.


Agenda
Welcome and coffee (or should that be a welcome coffee) – 15 minutes
Introduction – 5 minutes
Guest – 30 minutes
Working Session – 30 minutes
Close – 5 minutes

How much is it?
£10 on the door and step in for tea, coffee and something to keep you going until lunch

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Comment by Anne Hathaway on April 24, 2009 at 4:15pm

Crikey! Who says I don't own my own DNA? And who sold it to whom without telling me? This session sounds amazing - and I love the idea of getting "complete and perfect answers to these simple questions" in an hour and a half.........!!! Will do my very best to be there.

Comment by Andy Eymond on April 24, 2009 at 10:50am

Steve I always knew I was a boring, 500 year old amoeba with an identity crisis and no morals ! ... all sounds facinating can't wait ....