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Public Seminar: "The Information Gap"--March 15, 6 -7:30 pm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Wed Mar 10 09:50:26 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:48:34 -0500
To: magellan@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
TITLE: THE DARK SIDE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SPEAKER: Prof. Kenneth Keniston, MIT
MODERATOR: Venkatesh Hariharan, Information Poverty Research Institute
DATE: Monday, March 15, 1999
TIME: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
PLACE: MIT Room 1-390
(FOR DIRECTIONS CLICK:
http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=bldg_1&locate=room_1-390)
abstract
Incredible amounts of newsprint have been spent on the winners of the
Information Age -- the Amazons and the Yahoos. But very little attention
has been focussed on the fact that more than 90 percent of the world has
never used a computer.
What impact will this have on world culture? Will information technology
widen the exisiting gap between the rich and the poor? Can something be
done before it is too late? Prof. Kenneth Keniston of the Program in
Science, Technology and Society will address this issue in a seminar
organised by Sangam, the MIT-Indian Students' Association. All those
interested are welcome.
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For more information contact Venkatesh Hariharan at venky@mit.edu or at
617-253-6709.
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