-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Cato Event in SF Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:13:22 -0400 From: Jim Harper <jharper@private> To: <declan@private> Declan: This June 17 event in SF may be of interest to Politechnicals in the Bay Area. I'll be speaking about identification, no doubt incorporating observations from my testimony in Congress tomorrow (House Homeland Security Committee) and the second meeting of the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee in Boston next week. Jim Jim Harper Director of Information Policy Studies The Cato Institute You're invited to a seminar luncheon cosponsored by the Cato Institute and The Economist, "Liberty, Technology, and Prosperity," on Friday, June 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco. The seminar luncheon will feature nationally acclaimed Bay Area radio talk show host Gene Burns and best-selling author Joel Garreau. Joel Garreau will discuss the topic of his new book, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human, which examines possible implications of technological advances in such fields as genetics, robotics, information and nanotechnologies on human evolution. Wired editor-at-large Kevin Kelly writes about Radical Evolution, "It isn't often an author gets to herald the biggest news in the last 10,000 years. But you'll get the full, uncensored, mind-blowing report here in this entertaining and surprisingly deep book." And, I'm sure you will enjoy listening to the thoughtful and at times spirited remarks by Gene Burns. In addition, there will be brief presentations by Cato's president Ed Crane and our privacy expert Jim Harper. The registration fee is $50 per person and $350 for a table of eight. As a convenience you can register online at https://www.cato.org/events/050617cs.html <http://www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=77z,d5gt,15r2,ib84,4lcx,0,0> Program listed below. For further information please contact Cato's Lesley Albanese at 202-789-5223 or lalbanese@private Liberty, Technology, and Prosperity Seminar Luncheon cosponsored by the Cato Institute and The Economist CITY SEMINAR Friday, June 17, 2005 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Featuring Joel Garreau, Reporter and Editor, Washington Post, Principal, The Garreau Group, and Author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies-and What It Means to Be Human (Doubleday, May 2005); and Gene Burns, Radio Talk Show Host, KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk Radio. The Fairmont 950 Mason Street San Francisco 10:30-11:00 a.m. Registration 11:00-11:05 a.m. Welcoming Remarks Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute 11:05-11:35 a.m. Keynote Address-What Ever Happened to the Politics of Liberty Gene Burns, Radio Talk Show Host, KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk Radio 11:35-11:55 a.m. Identification in the Digital Age: Promise and Consequence Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute 11:55 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Once There Was a Constitution Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute 12:15-12:30 p.m. Reception _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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