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Program 780: Science, Technology, and Freedom

Robert Sinsheimer, of the University of California Santa Cruz, posits that freedom has traditionally been regarded as the protection of the individual from the far greater power of the state, but that we must now consider some newly emergent dangers which threaten individual liberty, such as the power that modern science may give to a small group - or even to an individual - to threaten an entire society, not to mention the very societal controls that such capability may in turn call forth. Douglas Inquiry X. Dec. 8, 1978. [CSDI program number 780; UCSB tape number A8546/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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