[Mitworld] New: Altshuler on Genetics, Bill Joy on the Six Webs

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[HUMAN GENETICS: OUR PAST AND OUR FUTURE]

In this first Soap Box event, the MIT Museum presents geneticist David
Altshuler in a lively discussion on the social and ethical
considerations surrounding the use of genetic information.

SPEAKER:
David Altshuler
	Founding Member, and Director of the Program in Medical and
		Population Genetics, Broad Institute
	Associate Professor, Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/325/>

[QUOTE]
"There's both tremendous benefit and risk to our work. We feel most
comfortable studying disease. But what would it mean to find genes for
other traits?"
--David Altshuler

EVENT HOST: MIT Museum

<http://web.mit.edu/museum/>

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[THE SIX WEBS, 10 YEARS ON]

Bill Joy reflects on the six webs--defined as far, near, here, weird,
B2B, and D2D--as an ongoing organizing principle for thinking about the
internet.

SPEAKER:

Bill Joy
	Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
	Former Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/324/>

[QUOTE]
"In 1994, we put a wireless network over the city of Aspen....It was a
strange experience then, at a point when no one had seen the internet or
web, to walk into a bar, open a notebook computer and be surfing the
web."
--Bill Joy

EVENT HOST:  Technology Review

<http://www.technologyreview.com/>

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