BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN NATURE, CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY: Albertans of all ages are tangling with the promises of technology that expand into new creative, social and work relationships while dissolving the boundaries between person and machine, inner and public lives, information and entertainment, and domains of knowledge. Increasingly, technologies once adapted by a society become seen as much social as natural.
What challenges and opportunities do emerging technologies and hyper-reality offer in our efforts to sustain vibrant democratic communities in Alberta?