Information Rights Salon - Wed Feb 9, 2005 (fwd)

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

At last night's meeting, I mentioned that there was an Information
Rights Salon today.  Here are the details.

Hugh Redelmeier
hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org  voice: +1 416 482-8253

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INFORMATION RIGHT SALON
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/inforights

The following event is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Information Studies
and the Information Rights Salon.

The Meta-Technologies of Information: The Shared Spaces of Genetic and
Digital Technologies

PROFESSOR SANDRA BRAMAN
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
SPECIAL TIME: 4:00-5:30pm

Location:
140 St. George Street, Room 728
Faculty of Information Studies (Bissell Building, adjacent to
Robarts Library)
University of Toronto

Attendance is free of charge and there is NO need for registration

ABSTRACT: Biotechnology and digital information technology are both
meta-technologies, qualitatively different from tools and industrial
technologies because they so vastly multiply the degrees of freedom with
which inputs can be transformed into outputs.  These two types of
meta-technologies also share social, cultural, political, economic, and
legal spaces.  As they come together in the most recent phase of the
convergence of technologies -- in the various forms of bioinformatics, DNA
computing, the cyborg, and on -- these meta-technologies also now share
physical spaces and organic processes.  Examining these two
meta-technologies together suggests implications of and analytical
approaches to each that might not otherwise be apparent.  This presentation
will explore the commonalities between biotechnology and digital information
technology, with an emphasis on what such a comparison contributes to our
understanding of human and computer information collection, processing,
flows, and use.

To see Prof. Sandra Braman's bio go to http://www.uwm.edu/~braman/bio.html

To sign-up for the Information Rights Salon announcement email list see our
website http://fis.utoronto.ca/research/inforights

The Information Rights Salon is sponsored by the Knowledge Media Design
Institute (KMDI) http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/ and the Information Policy
Research
Project (IPRP) http://fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp
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