Mark Lythgoe in conversation with Bonnie Greer

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Mark Lythgoe in conversation with Bonnie Greer

12 Sep 2009

Speakers: Mark Lythgoe, Bonnie Greer

On 12 September 2009, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm hosted The Long Conversation, a 12-hour relay discussion involving twenty different speakers spanning science, art, business, technology, literature and philosophy. The series was inspired by Jem Finer’s 1000-year piece of music Longplayer – performed, simultaneously, elsewhere in the building.

Playwright Bonnie Greer looks towards a future powered and structured by nanosystems, and questions the possibility of automatic machines superseding the organic human. Has the evolutionary process been artificially caught up? Spurred on by Dr Mark Lythgoe, Greer expresses the need to pioneer greater interaction between the creative and scientific spheres, calling on journalists and technologists alike to enter into a more constructive dialogue.