[379] in peace2
Re: Science and Social Responsibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sanjay basu)
Fri Sep 22 11:21:31 2000
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:19:17 -0400
To: Jason West <jwest@mit.edu>, peace-list@mit.edu
From: sanjay basu <sanjayb@MIT.EDU>
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I'm from the mit undergraduate research journal, and this is precisely the
kind of thing we try to do in our publication (see the website:
http://web.mit.edu/murj/www). we're starting a new ethics section to appear
in our journal in november, and i think it would be good if we could
collaborate on this...
-sanjay
At 11:10 AM 9/22/00 -0400, Jason West wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Have you ever thought that technology is developed with too little thought
>about its ethical consequence?
>
>Would you like to see MIT do a better job of encouraging ethical thinking
>among its students?
>
>We think so too, and will do something about it by reviving a chapter of
>Student Pugwash at MIT. We'll be holding an organizational meeting to get
>this going --
>
>Mon. Sept. 25, 5-6 PM
>Room 10-280
>(free pizza!)
>
>Please bring your thoughts and enthusiasm to help make this a success!
>Some of the topics we hope to address this school year are:
>
>- The global environment (climate change, water quality & availability)
>- Sustainable development
>- Nuclear disarmament
>- The internet - privacy, free speech, and the "digital divide"
>- Biotechnology
>
>For your information, I got this from the Student Pugwash web site
>(www.spusa.org, then search for Student Pugwash):
>
> Founded in 1979, Student Pugwash USA takes its name from our
> parent organization, the Pugwash Conferences on
>Science and
> World Affairs. After the development of the hydrogen
>bomb, Albert
> Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and other eminent
>scientists issued a
> manifesto urging people to "remember your humanity
>and forget the
> rest." This manifesto led to a historic meeting which
>took place in
> 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, where scientists from
>around the
> world made a bold stand for scientific responsibility
>and peaceful
> solutions in a world forever changed by weapons of
>mass destruction.
> Pugwash and Joseph Rotblat, one of its founders,
>received the 1995
> Nobel Peace Prize for this important and
>world-changing work.
> There are over 20 national Student and Young Pugwash
>groups
> around the world.
>
> The mission of Student Pugwash USA is to promote the
>socially
> responsible application of science and technology in
>the 21st century.
> As a student organization, Student Pugwash USA
>encourages
> young people to examine the ethical, social, and
>global implications of
> science and technology, and to make these concerns a
>guiding focus
> of their academic and professional endeavors.
>
>Thanks and I hope to see you there.
>
>Peace,
>
>Jason
>
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