The Technology and Culture Forum is a ministry of the Episcopal Chaplain at MIT, and grows out of the church’s commitment to peace, justice, and upholding human dignity. Our programs challenge participants to consider how their work as scientists, engineers, managers, and citizens furthers these ideals.

Included among the speakers that T&C has hosted are Willy Brandt, Al Gore, Olaf Palme, John Kenneth Galbraith, Stephen Jay Gould, Vandana Shiva, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Metcalfe, Noam Chomsky, Sherry Turkle, Robert McChesney, Frances Moore Lappe, Scott Ritter, Gunther Schuller and Amy Goodwin.

Past Forums

[ Forums '06-'07 ]
[ Forums '05-'06 ]
[ Forums '04-'05 ]
[ Forums '03-'04 ]
[ Forums '02-'03 ]
[ Forums '01-'02 ]
[ Forums '00-'01 ]
[ Forums '99-'00 ]
[ Forums '98-'99 ]
[ Past Speakers ]

Some Past Speakers

• Willy Brandt, Nobel Prize winner, Former Chancellor, West Germany
• Lester Thurow, Dean Emeritus, Sloan School of Management, MIT
• Olaf Palme, former Prime Minister, Sweden
• Don Helder Camara, Archbishop, Recife, Brazil
• John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
• Hilary Rose, Professor, University of Bradford, England
• Stephen J. Gould, Professor, Harvard University
• Carl Djerassi, Professor of Biology, Stanford University
• Mitchell Kapor, founder of the Lotus Corporation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Sherry Turkle, Professor, Science, Technology and Society, MIT
• Henry Kendall, MIT Professor, Department of Physics, Nobel Prize Laureate
• Lester Brown, President of Worldwatch Institute
• Michael Dertouzos
• Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, Director, World Wide Web Consortium
• David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT, one of the inventors of the Internet
• Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet
• Jeffrey Schiller, MIT's network manager and "security person"
• John Perry Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation