space@mit-mc (02/08/85)
From: "Bob Czech" <939@NJIT-EIES.MAILNET> Blast off into space this spring on PARTI on The Source by joining the ELECTURE "SPACE - Humanizing the Universe." Dr. Paul Levinson will lead PARTIcipants in an interactive exploration of how access to new dimensions of the universe may change our outlook on the future. Using material from his forthcoming books, _Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age_ and a science fiction novel, _A Deuce of a Time_, Dr. Levinson will discuss the implications of space travel, the role of technology in cognitive evolution, the pros and cons of the "star wars" defense, and the very nature of time and space. A prolific writer on media, technology, and space, Dr. Levinson is also an expert on the implications of electronic communications systems and their use as educational media. In addition to being on the faculty of the Media Studies program at the New School for Social Research he is the Director of Connected Education and an online professor for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. He has published extensively on technology and its implications for society. In inviting Source members to consider the issues which he will raise in the ELECTURE on "Space" Dr. Levinson says, "I like to think that such thoughts may have a certain uniqueness in the long stretch of human history: they may be among the last thoughts about the human role in space to be thought before we went on to achieve that destiny."