Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
Aspen Institute
The Morris Series: Leadership and Innovation, featuring James Reardon-Anderson, Jeffrey Ball, Wade Crowfoot, and David Monsma
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Thu Apr 16, 2015
San Francisco, CA
Date
Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
The Walt Disney Family Museum
James Reardon-Anderson, Interim Dean, Walsh School of Foreign Service, and Sun Yat-sen Professor of Chinese Studies, Georgetown University;
Jeffrey Ball, Scholar-in-Residence of Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University; Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School;
Wade Crowfoot, Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Senior Advisor, Office of California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
Moderated by:
David Monsma, Executive Director, Energy & Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
Made possible by a generous donation from Aspen Institute Trustee Diane L. Morris, this series brings the mission and work of the Institute to an invited group of supporters, friends, and new audiences in the San Francisco area. The Series addresses innovation and technology with an underlying theme of leadership based on enduring values and nonpartisan exchange.
Featuring James Reardon-Anderson, Interim Dean, Walsh School of Foreign Service, and Sun Yat-sen Professor of Chinese Studies, Georgetown University; Jeffrey Ball, Scholar-in-Residence of Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University; Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School.
As our unified social values fragment and organized religion falls to the lowest levels of participation on record, people are seeking meaning. Belief in biohacking and the singularity now resemble tenets of a new faith. Since before the advent of the printing press and the Gutenberg Bible, technology and religion have had a complex and mutually beneficial relationship. While technology in the past augmented religion, join us as we ponder whether technology has itself become a new religion.
