The Future Of Communications Seminar
Modern methods of communication are extending man's nervous system to cover the planet. How and why will such an extended nervous system operate? How will it affect the "private person" and our ideas of ethics and responsibility? To use Toynbee's word, will it "etherealize" our entire society?
The Future of Politics Seminar
Will politics as we now know them, become irrelevant and disappear, and will the state, as Marx imagined, fade away? What are the prospects for individual liberty, civil rights, law and the courts, the police and penology? If nature abhors a vacuum, into what will "dropouts" drop in?