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Leonardo Lectures
Each year one or more invited speakers gives a talk on a topic of interest to Leonardo students as well as the general public.
Gerri Sinclair 2005
Richard Lipsey 2006
Cory Doctorow 2007
The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards.
How technology changes the way we view social problems. Older mechanical technologies make us see the world as deterministic, knowable and manipulable. New emergent technologies like the Internet teach us that control is an illusion, the universe is out of control and laughing at us, and that the more we watch and control, the more problems we have.
The talk was presented twice:Click on links for recordings of the talks