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"What is Technology for Anyway?"

Advances in economic productivity give us choices and the simplest one is: more time or more stuff? Guest speaker John de Graaf (co-author of the bestselling "Affluenza: The All-consuming Epidemic") argues that we must begin to trade productivity advances for more free time instead of more material goods if we are to be free as individuals and to be sustainable as a society.

This conversation is co-sponsored by the schools of Public Policy and History, Technology, & Society.

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Advances in economic productivity give us choices and the simplest one is: more time or more stuff? Guest speaker John de Graaf argues that we must begin to trade productivity advances for more free time instead of more material goods if we are to be free as individuals and to be sustainable as a society.

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Wednesday
Feb 10 2010
03:00pm - 04:30pm

Fees: $0.00

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  • Created By:Michael Hagearty
  • Created:02/01/2010
  • Modified By:Fletcher Moore
  • Modified:10/07/2016

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