LIVING WITH THE GENIE DAILY SCHEDULE

Tuesday, March 5, 2002 8:30-10:20 Continental breakfast, followed by opening events – Music, Cinema, Science, Technology

and Perception 10:20-11:50 What can we learn from past scientific and technological transformation of society? Are things different now,

and if so, how are they different? (Moderator: Daniel Sarewitz)

Michelle Addington Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard School of Design

Ruth Cowan Professor of History, SUNY – Stony Brook Troy Duster Professor of Sociology, Institute for the History of the Production

of Knowledge, New York University Bill Joy Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Sun Microsystems Kathy Schick Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Center for

Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University

Shiv Visvanathan Anthropologist and Human Rights Researcher; Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,

Delhi, India 11:50-2:00 Participant Designed Dialogue and Action (and lunch): Open space for self-organizing

activities, such as “The ‘Good Life’ and Science and Technology” (Heinrich Boell Foundation); “The Alienation of Scientists from Policy” (American Physical Society); other topics include “Sentient Computing and Privacy,” “International Agreements on Human Genome Research.” Please feel free to contact us with additional ideas for discussions/activities that you would like to organize or see at the event.

2:00-3:45 What can we say about the world we are now making? Can we talk meaningfully about using science and

technology to “design” the future? To what extent do we see evidence of such design in the present? What is under our control, and what is not? (Moderator: Michael Crow) Susan Eisenhower President of the Eisenhower Institute, and founder and chairman

of the Center for Political and Strategic Studies Susan Greenfield Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Fullerian

Professor of Physiology at Oxford University Soraj Hongladarom Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University,

Thailand Alan Lightman Writer, physicist, and educator, Adjunct Professor of Humanities,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard Rhodes Author and Historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction

3:30-5:30 Participant Designed Dialogue and Action 5:30-7:00 Musical Performance – Jaron Lanier - composer, computer scientist, visual artist, and

author. Coined the term ‘virtual reality.’ Wednesday, March 6, 2002 8:30-9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00-10:45 What research should we be doing? (Moderator: Daniel Sarewitz)

Ignacio Chapella Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science,

Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley Gordon Conway President of the Rockefeller Foundation Carol Greider Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Professor of

Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Eva Harris Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at the School of Public

Health, UC Berkeley William Janeway Vice Chairman of Warburg Pincus Philip Kitcher Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

10:45-11:45 Break 11:45-1:15pm What do we want from science and technology? How do scientific and technological change influence the

quality of our lives and mediate our ability to pursue “the good life”? (Moderator: Conn Nugent) Arlie Hochschild Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley Ray Kurzweil Inventor and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, When

Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Vasudha Narayanan Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, President of the

American Academy of Religion George Rupp President of Columbia University Gregor Wolbring Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor for Bioethics,

University of Calgary, Canada. He is the founder and coordinator of the International Network on Bioethics and Disability

1:15 - 3:30 Participant Designed Dialogue and Action (and lunch)

3:30-5:00 How are the products of science and technology appropriated and distributed? (Moderator: Michael Crow) Mitchell Kapor Founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of

Lotus 1-2-3 Richard Jefferson Chairman, CEO and Chief Scientist, Center for the Application of

Molecular Biology to International Agriculture (CAMBIA), Australia

Lea Velho Professor in Science and Technology Policy, University of

Campinas, Brazil

5:00-7:00 Reception Thursday, March 7, 2002 8:30-9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00-10:45 How should scientific and technological progress be governed in the modern world? (Moderator: Daniel

Sarewitz) Lori Andrews Distinguished Professor of Law at the Chicago Institute of

Technology’s Kent College of Law Michael Benedikt Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design and

the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism at the University of Texas John Podesta Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Chief of

Staff to President Clinton Carl Gustav Thornstrom Researcher at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre and an adviser to

the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and to the Swedish Government on genetic policy issues

Thomas Odhiambo Honorary President of the African Academy of Sciences and

Managing Trustee, The Research and Development Forum for Science-Led Development in Africa (RANDFORUM), Nairobi, Kenya

10:45-11:45 Where do we go from here? 11:45-12:30 Closing Speaker – Natalie Jeremijenko - Design engineer and internationally renowned

techno-artist, Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology, New York University 12:30 Lunch