---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hannah Almeter <halmeter@uw.edu> Date: Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:53 AM Subject: [dub] Tomorrow | A hunter-gatherer perspective on tech and sustainability | James Suzman Distinguished Lecture with UW Tech Policy Lab To: "dub@dub.washington.edu" <dub@dub.washington.edu> Join the Tech Policy Lab tomorrow to hear about tech and sustainability from a hunter-gatherer perspective with anthropologist James Suzman. James Suzman <https://www.fromthebush.com/> has lived and worked with every major Bushman group in southern Africa over the past 25 years and is the author of *Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen. *Dr. Suzman wrote an article as part of the Guardian’s Inequality Project over the weekend, Why ‘Bushman banter’ was crucial to hunter-gatherers’ evolutionary success <https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/oct/29/why-bushman-banter-was-crucial-to-hunter-gatherers-evolutionary-success> . *Tech Policy Lab Fall Distinguished Lecture:* *Poison Arrows and Other “Killer Apps”: A Hunter-Gather Perspective on Technology and Our Future with James Suzman* Thursday, November 2, 2017, 7-8:30p Kane Hall 120, University of Washington, Free RSVP Requested: Register Here <https://tech-policy-lab-distinguished-lecture-james-suzman.eventbrite.com/> More info here <http://techpolicylab.org/events/fall-distinguished-lecture-with-james-suzman/> *Abstract: * The success of a civilization can be measured by its longevity. In that light, Southern Africa’s hunting and gathering San (“Bushmen”) are the most enduring (and successful) civilization in the history of modern Homo sapiens. What tools do the San use and how has their tool use contributed to such longevity? What of modern society? Despite technological advancements that have enabled levels of productivity unimaginable a hundred years ago, the modern world faces broad sustainability challenges. How might a better understanding of sustainable hunter-gatherer societies like the San help us respond to the social and economic impacts of modern technology, including challenges from increasing automation and computerization? How might such understanding help us to meet broader sustainability challenges? *Bio: * With a head full of Laurens van der Post and half an anthropology degree from St Andrews University under his belt, James Suzman hitched a ride into Botswana’s eastern Kalahari in June 1991. He has been living and working with Kalahari peoples ever since. Dr. Suzman holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Edinburgh University which he was awarded in 1996. Since then he has lived and worked with every major Bushman group in southern Africa, from the war ravaged Vasakele !Kung of southern Angola during the final phases of that civil war, to the highly marginalized Hai// om of Namibia’s Etosha National Park. Dr. Suzman is the Author of Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen, published by Bloomsbury in 2017. ---- Hannah Almeter Program Manager Tech Policy Lab | University of Washington halmeter@uw.edu | (206) 685-8060 _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub@dub.washington.edu http://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub