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World Without Mind

24 March 2018
6.30am – 7.30am AEDT
Carriageworks
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We love our tech toys, tools and networks but what are we sacrificing for their daily convenience? As the big four – Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon – get bigger, they consume more and more of our attention. Privacy, contemplation and autonomous thought are just some of the casualties. Franklin Foer argues that this transformation has gone so far that it endangers our ability to think. Are we on our way to a world without mind?

Presented by UNSW Centre for Ideas and Carriageworks. Grand Challenges Program: Living with 21st Century Technology.

Limited free tickets available for UNSW staff and students.

Speakers
Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer

The former editor of The New Republic, Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and fellow at the New America Foundation. One of today's most respected magazine journalists, Foer is also the author of the acclaimed book How Soccer Explains the World as well as World Without Mind. An enlightening and engaging speaker, Foer offers astute commentary on economics, globalization, the tech industry, and our current political climate.