Book talk and signing
Mon., May 2, 7 p.m.,
Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe
http://www.changinghands.com/
ASU engineering faculty member Braden Allenby will discuss and sign copies of “The Techno-Human Condition,” a new book he co-authored with Daniel Sarewitz that explores “what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.” Allenby is a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and the Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics. Sarewitz is co-founder and co-director of ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, and Professor of Science and Society. Admission is free. For more information about the event, call 480-730-0205. For more about the book, see http://engineering.asu.edu/news/8309
The event is sponsored by the project, “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, Technology,” funded by the Metanexus Institute and John Templeton Foundation (transhumanism.asu.edu), with support from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the Consortium for Science and Policy Outcomes, the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
