News item image

Book talk: Brave New World
Man and Technology in harmony?

19:00

16.09.2019

Category:

Description

The Autor mr. Dag Hareide is writing a book on artificial intelligence (AI), biotec, weapon industry and a technical development in a pace that is very hard to follow – and not least being unable understanding the concequences for us all. Dag has been traveling all the major places of dvelopment round the Globe, talking to researchers, developers and policymakers to learn about it all. What does all this mean to ordinary people as ourselves? The book will be published in a few months.

Our talk will also touch the profetic books of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. The three books of Yval Noah Harari, primary Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century has reached a very big reading public. His ideas are relevant to our talk.

The prize winning saxophone quartet Aqua D’Or is playing. You can by refreshments in the ground floor café.

Co-operating  partners are Drammen kirkeforum, Drammensbiblioteket, Kirkelig Dialogsenter Drammen and Tunsberg bispedømmekontor.

The talk will be in Norwegian language.