Date: 29 Apr 92 18:41:02 EDT
From: Gordon Meyer <72307.1502@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: File 5--Society and Tech Online

GEnie's Public Forum*NonProfit Connection area (home of CuD back
issues on GEnie) has announced a series of online conferences on
Technology and Society.

For CuD readers that may be GEnie users, here's the schedule of
events....

ward Rheingold -- Virtual Reality
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When Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia experienced virtual
reality, he said, "They made LSD illegal.  I wonder what they are
going to do about this stuff."

With a head-mounted display and sensors monitoring body movement,
people are already walking through computer-simulated buildings
before construction and firing weapons from remote tanks.  What
will the future look like?  What decisions should we make now,
before the full impact of virtual reality?

Howard wrote _Virtual Reality_, edits _The Whole Earth Review_
and consults with the US Congress Office of Technology
Assessment.  He has written for such publications as _The New
York Times_, _Esquire_, _Playboy_ and _Omni_.  His other
(excellent!) books include _Tools for Thought_ and _Excursions to
the Far Side of the Mind._

          May 10: Steve Cisler -- Public Access to Information
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Steve, an expert on national information issues from Apple Computer,
will join a discussion of public access to information and public
control over high-speed data highways.

     May 24:  Katie Hafner -- Social Consequences of Computer Networks
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Co-author of _Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier_,
Katie will talk with us about the communities that have grown up around
computer networks.

               May 31:  Jerry Berman -- Free Speech Online
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Founder of the ACLU Privacy and Technology Project and now director
of the Washington, DC, office of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Jerry will join our discussion about who controls the content of
electronic communication and the systems through which it travels.


All conferences will begin at 9pm EDT in the PF*NPC conference
area.

If the issues and discussions raised by the conferences warrant,
future issues of CuD may contain summaries or excerpts from these
conferences as appropriate.

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