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Do transport and communications technology run haywire with basic rhythms of life?
Tuesday April 17, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Is faster always better? If we could go from Edinburgh to London in 3 hours, would it be a good thing? We take for granted that speed is great - less time spent travelling or surfing the net, and instant global communications. Yet job stress, traffic congestion and internet overload present self-defeating ironies. Is it really such a good idea? What is our ever increasing pace of life doing to us as human beings? At what point does transport and communications technology run haywire with the basic rhythms of life? Can humans go on going faster and communicating quicker, before something gives way? Somewhere, sometime, doesn't there have to be a limit to acceleration ....?
A debate with transport and risk expert Prof. John Adams University College London and Prof. David Pullinger of Middlesex University, expert in human-computer interactions and former director of the Society Religion and Technology Project
Professor Adams says "Instead of continuing to sacrifice the physical and social environment for more mobility, it requires cherishing the local and foregoing some of the benefits of mobility to protect and enhance what we value in nature and our relations with friends and neighbours."
See more about Prof. Adams' views
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Contact : Dr Donald Bruce, SRT Project tel. 0131-240 2250, Fax 0131-240 2239,
srtp@srtp.org.uk http://www.srtp/org.uk
or Church of Scotland Press Office tel. 0131- 240 2243
or Edinburgh International Science Festival at the Hub, Edinburgh
Dr Bruce is Director of the Church of Scotland Society Religion and Technology Project, assessing ethical issues in technology for Scotland's national church. One of three SRT Project events at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
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