We live in an age of new technology, expecting any day to wake up to yet another jaw-dropping device or a discovery that simply changes everything about the way we live and work. The rate of innovation in the modern age can be breathtaking, but technological advances have jolted humans into new and unfamiliar territory since the dawn of humankind. On February 9, Joan Kjaer and her WorldCanvass guests contemplated the larger implications of the adoption of new technologies—how they change the ways in which individuals interact, the sharing of information, the movement of people and ideas from place to place, and what all of this means to the shape and form of a culture. Below is a ReCap of the event with access to see and hear the full program.
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Press-Citizen: Program tackles questions of technology
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Part 1: The 'new' in new technology
Part 2: The material lives of technology
Part 3: Technology, cultural production, and globalization
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Part 1: The 'new' in new technology
Part 2: The material lives of technology
Part 3: Technology, cultural production, and globalization