Science and Technology

Program 7: Tangents of Technology

Aldous Huxley leads a discussion of the ecological effects of technology; a witty, urbane lament that the birds and the...

Program 36: Technology and the Fine Arts

William Gorman explores the views of André Malraux and his famous concept of a “museum without walls,” in the light...

Program 44: Authoritarian and Democratic Technics

Author Lewis Mumford warns against the dehumanizing aspects of technological systems based on authoritarian principles, claiming that they are inimical...

Program 45: Technology and Democracy

Gerard Piel, publisher of Scientific American, posits that a blind adherence to the historical economy of scarcity prevents modern society...

Program 95: Bureaucracy Is Not Muddling Through

Newton Minow, former FCC chairman, argues that the failure to adapt our institutions to ever more rapid change forces the...

Program 105 : And What About Noodle?

The Center's John Wilkinson posits that, in a society where quantity matters more than quality and automation is rapidly making...

Program 114: Science: For Truth or Good? - I

The Center's Scott Buchanan interviews Helmut Krauch of the Heidelberg Institute, who is the head of a group of German...

Program 115: Science: For Truth or Good? - II

Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling debates Helmut Krauch on his views of the proper goals of scientific research. Recounting the...

Program 116: Anyone For 1984?

A discussion of Jacques Ellul's study of the dangers that lurk in an expanding technological culture, led by the Center's...

Program 120: Linus and Ava Helen Pauling

In this informal talk, Dr. and Mrs. Pauling recall their courtship and the work they have done together that led...

Program 152: PIT I - III: Ideology and Intervention

The old criteria about ideological differences are no longer useful, as many have been blurred by technological advances. The advent...

Program 272: Today's Crisis in Religion

An address by Bishop James A. Pike, in which he argues that religion, dogma, and doctrine must accommodate new scientific...

Program 415 : Technology and Politics

An examination of whether the concept of politics as found in Machiavelli and Hobbes has become obsolete in the face...

Program 422: Technology Roundup

An informal conversation reviewing the week-long conference on technology, with J. P. Corbett, Herbert Marcuse, Nathan Rotenstreich, Gerald Sykes...

Program 456: Scientists: On Top or On Tap?

Harvey Wheeler argues that the social impact of the modern world’s intense scientific activity, as well as the rapidity with...

Program 501: The Ethics of Medicine

In this discussion from a Center conference, the panelists debate the question of whether a new ethics is needed to...

Program 526: No Man is an Island... -- Nor Any Nation

The Center's Elisabeth Mann Borgese argues that ecological pollution makes national boundary claims obsolete, and that there is a need...

Program 624: Water Management: The Vital Science

D. F. Peterson, of Utah State University, outlines the problems of providing the world's farmers with the quality and quantity...

Program 737: Man's Impact on the Atmosphere

Atmospheric scientist Joseph Knox explains that because of the complex physical processes and feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, activities which...

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...

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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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