British Science Association : Cyber solutions x-change

Cyber Solutions?

Has the internet ushered in a golden age of communication & information? What impacts are mobile phones having on social interaction? How can we protect ourselves from the addictions these technologies have produced? Join a panel of leading commentators to discuss these issues and other stories in the news this month.

"People text message because they don't want to deal with a response."
Actor Kiefer Sutherland in The Observer, 6 March 2005
“Technology, I repeat, will determine the future of the human race. We should recognise this and give it the profile and status that it deserves.”
Lord Broers, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, in the first of the Reith Lectures, 6 April 2005
Speakers:
Dr Mark Lythgoe
Neurophysiologist, Institute of Child Health
Dr Blay Whitby
Lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex
Daniel Jackson
Artist & Director of Avco, an internet company

This audience-led discussion was chaired by broadcaster Toby Murcott.

The Guardian was the media partner for the x-change in 2005.