The Great Conversation Princeton 🇺🇸 Watch Party
About Event
THE PRINCETON WATCH PARTY FOR THE GREAT CONVERSATION
On May 27th, The Toronto Society, irid, and Wygo, supported by Notion, Cursor, and Ambition, present The Great Conversation, a lecture on the history of technology by Matthew Jordan.
We have been telling the story of technology backwards. Our tools—steam engines, silicon chips—take center stage, but these artifacts are the lagging indicators of progress, not the drivers. Tools are the image of their creators. If we are to understand technology, we must begin by understanding technologists.
To be a technologist is to have a theory of what it means to be human, and to make that theory concrete through the craft of engineering and design. Technology is an inherently collaborative and social enterprise. Collaboration requires trust, and trust requires shared stakes, which can only be generated by struggling with the real world, face-to-face, together.
The work of technology is not limited to one kind of person. Artists, scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, academics, engineers, designers, policy-makers—we are all technologists.
It is up to each of us to carry on the work of the human project together. The Great Conversation is about introducing you to your ancestors, for the good of your work, for the good of your spirit, and for the good of the world.
Event Timing
​​​7:00 PM: Lecture Followed by Q&A
​​​8:45 PM: Lecture concludes
Location
McCosh Hall 64
Princeton, NJ, United States
About The Hosts
Sarah Pedersen is a PhD student in sociology at Princeton University.
Benjamin Parry is the founder of The Toronto Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, which runs the Viaduct Lectures, reading groups, and more to build the city's intellectual infrastructure for the next hundred years.
Michelle Jia is a lecturer at Stanford d.School and the founder of The Institute for Relational Intelligence in Design (irid), a design institution focused on nurturing a network of grounded, civic-minded creatives in the city of Toronto.
Matthew Jordan is a PhD candidate in the history of technology at Princeton University and the founder of Hidden Rivers, a walking tour and history education company.
Joss Murphy is the founder of Wygo, which is creating the infrastructure for in-person, entrepreneurial community organizers to grow businesses and do what they love.
Anthea Tawiah is a designer who led visual direction for The Great Conversation.
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