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The Brain of the Future Updated: 2010-05-19 09:52:00 Description: The Graduate School Centre at the University of Nottingham was formally opened on 12th October 2006 by Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University. In this key note speech, Baroness Greenfield considers how humans will communicate and learn in the future, as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, and the pace of change within society becomes ever faster. Baroness Greenfield discusses the idea of a “trans-humanist” world where the convergence of technology and biology may be so complete, that our current views on the differences between the carbon of the human body and the silicate of a microprocessor may be challenged. A future where we move from “book culture” to “screen culture” and how it, amongst other technological advancements, may stifle creativity and imagination which could result in a brain with underdeveloped connection branches in the pre-frontal cortex, similar to that of a schizophrenic. An interesting and engaging lecture that will have you asking “How much technology is too much?” For more information on the University’s Grad School go to http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gradschool/ LISTEN NOW | DOWNLOAD |
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