Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon make us a wearisome, predictable people. Without thinking we give ‘Big Tech’ data about ourselves and in this way we sell our souls. We have stopped thinking for ourselves, according to the bestselling American author Franklin Foer. Technology may even constitute an existential threat. It is high time for opposition. Listen and find out why our dependence on Big Tech is dangerous and think about how to turn the tide.

Wednesday 18 October 2017 | 19.30 – 21.00 hrs | Collegezalencomplex Radboud University

Read the review (Dutch): http://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2017-0/terugblik-2017/17-10-18-world-without-mind-lecture-by-journalist/

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDcq9BU-ZtY

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