Hughes speaks at remarkable left-right seminar in Stockholm

On August the 16th the Swedish libertarian thinktank Eudoxa and the left-leaning Swedish thinktank/publisher Arena invited Dr. James Hughes to speak at the seminar “Frihet, jämlikhet, teknologi” (Liberty, equality, technology) in Stockholm.

The seminar was well attended with guests from the media, academia, and government. Dr. Hughes explained the emerging biopolitical divisions in US and European politics, and the odd alliances that this new terrain generates around questions like human enhancement. The fact that both a libertarian and a leftist thinktank would both like Dr. Hughes’ book Citizen Cyborg enough to co-sponsor their first event together is evidence of the important contribution that the IEET’s technoprogressive perspective is making in the debates over emerging technologies.

Research Director Dr. Anders Sandberg bids Dr. Hughes welcome to Stockholm

Director Waldemar Ingdahl listening to Dr. Hughes at the seminar

Part of the audience listening to Dr. Hughes speech

Dr. Hughes explains how the new biopolitical dimension radically changes the political landscape

Jonas Förare from The Royal Swedish Academy of Science (right) and Kaianders Sempler, journalist from Ny Teknik (left) enjoying refreshments at the post-seminar reception

Dr. Hughes in discussion with Malin Sandström from the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter and Professor Bo Dahlbom, president of the Swedish Research Institute for Information Technology

IT-guru and IP debater Oscar Swartz at the reception