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SUMMARY:Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology - Professor John 
 Naughton\, CRASSH\, Cambridge.
DTSTART:20181207T174500Z
DTEND:20181207T191000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract -- Over 500 years ago\, Martin Luther posted his 95 T
 heses on a church door in Saxony and then adroitly exploited a new communi
 cations technology (printing) to challenge both the theology and the busin
 ess model of the Catholic church. For decades I’ve been using the same t
 echnology (two books\, a weekly newspaper column) to explore the implicati
 ons of the dominant theology of our time — Tech- nopoly — and its busi
 ness model. One of my current projects involves borrowing Luther’s idea 
 of ‘theses’ — provocative assertions designed to stimulate argument 
 and debate — as a way of fostering public understanding of technology. I
 n this talk I will give an interim report and outline some of the theses.\
 n\nBio -- Professor John Naughton is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson and Dir
 ector of the College’s Press Fellowship Programme. He is also Emeritus P
 rofessor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University 
 and the Technology columnist of the Observer newspaper. He was Vice Presid
 ent of Wolfson from 2011-2015 and until recently was co-director of two re
 search projects at CRASSH on Conspiracy and Democracy and Technology and D
 emocracy His most recent book — From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you r
 eally need to know about the Internet — is published by Quercus.\n
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Gatsby Room
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