Evolver Calgary September Spore: Technology

Join Evolver Calgary this month as we team up with Zeitgeist Calgary and head down to The Distillery to explore our relationship with technology, listen to some amazing speakers, meet some incredible individuals, have some great conversation, and then finish the night off with a dance party to celebrate!

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Timeline for the evening!

Doors at 6:00 pm

Speakers:
6:20 - 6:30 - Zeitgeist and Evolver Calgary Welcome
6:30 - 6:45 - Humanity and Technology: An Epic Tale
6:45 - 7:10 – Ben Reed: Protospace: Hack Your Community
7:10 - 7:30 – Pirate Party of Canada: Lawful Access and You: A Personal Privacy Nightmare
7:30 - 7:50 – Paul Brodeur: Digital Self-Defense
7:50 - 8:05 - Film Preview: Thorium Remix 2011 (feat. Kirk Sorensen)
8:05 - 8:30 - Audrey Burch: The Symbiosis of Kombucha
8:30 - 8:55 - Kevin Dubienski: Embracing the Internet
8:55 - 9:20 - James Jesso - Brainwave Entertainment and Meditation Technology
9:20 - 9:35 - Tony Grimes - Biological Basis of Compassion

DJ Slots:
9:45 - 10:45 - Jamie Norman
10:45 - 10:50 - Busy Beats (beat boxing)
10:50 - 11:50 - D.J. Catley
11:50 - 12:50 - Insatiable

$3.50 hiballs and domestics all night! Invite your friends! :)
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Hope to see you there! ♥

Evolver Calgary

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With advancements in technology doubling every 2 years, the complex tools and toys of 21st century homo sapiens harness nearly divine-like powers that carry the potential to either preserve or destroy life on the planet. In the past few years, we have mapped the human genome, peered more than 14 billion years across the universe, built large-scale wind farms and solar panels, fashioned particle accelerators to study the smallest units of matter, and seen social networking systems spawn democratic revolutions in the Middle East. We’ve also witnessed unmanned drones bomb civilian villages in Pakistan, GMO foods contaminate US food supplies, nuclear reactors radiate the landscape of Fukushima, and offshore drilling poison 170 million gallons of Gulf water.

This month, in collaboration with Bioneers, 40+ Evolver communities will explore the benefits and pitfalls of modern technology. We will discuss how these developments shape and change our lives, how we can utilize these new tools safely and responsibly for the common good, and how to hold governments and corporations accountable for the technologies they develop. Spores may choose to cover topics ranging from hactkivism to nanotechnology, open source collaborations to bioengineering, alternative energy to vacuum field physics.