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SUMMARY:FREEDOM\, TECHNOLOGY AND TERROR - Professor Ross Anderson\, Profes
 sor of Security Engineering
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DESCRIPTION:Is our university still a place for free thinking? Cambridge U
 niversity is increasingly influenced by the world of business\, both throu
 gh direct contact and funding\, and through the all pervasive spirit of pr
 ofit-loss calculation. This raises serious challenges to the place of free
 \,independent and critical thinking in the University: Are academics compe
 lled to serve profit rather than truth in their research? Has undergraduat
 e education become a mere production line\, generating consultants for the
  private sector\, rather than thinkers for society? Have we lost the abili
 ty to justify thinking outside of economic grounds? We cordially invite yo
 u to our 5th lecture series that tries to shed a critical light on the cur
 rent developments within our institution\, and\, more generally\, to ask i
 f there is any free space of thinking left which has not yet been taken ov
 er by economic rationality. It seeks to ask how\, in an age when the unive
 rsity's activities are predominantly judged and legitimised in terms of ut
 ility and profit\, can we\, both students and academics\, act to secure fr
 eedom from this crude and unforgiving rationality and maintain the critica
 l distance necessary to question its place as a dominant rationality of ou
 r time.\n
LOCATION:Lloyd Room\, Christ's College
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