TechFoundHer Bookclub: The Battle for Your Brain by Nita A Farahany

Everyone is welcome to our December Bookclub. The only suggestion is to have read or listened to the book in advance! And of course come with an open mind ready to be inspired!

Our December book has been recommended by Dr Lollie Mancey who is hosting our gathering! There will be an opportunity to hear about Dr Mancey's motivation for choosing this book and the debates it raises about technology and ethics of course to meet others from the TechFoundHer Community!

About Dr Lollie Mancey:

Dr Lollie Mancey is Programme Director in UCD's Innovation Academy (University College Dublin). With a PhD in organisational learning she applies her knowledge to the challenges of AI; specifically Ethics and the human centred approach to a changing technological and cultural landscape. She is also Director of three businesses (…and growing) making her a serial entrepreneur. She has a radio show on Dublin South FM and her own successful podcast on Spotify, where she interviews 'unlikely' entrepreneurs and innovators (An Entrepreneur Like You). A champion of entrepreneurs and lifelong learners she helps those pivoting into new roles and careers, as well as mentoring and inspiring; identifying emerging areas of work and also speaks on the future of work itself within the changing technological landscapes. Her current passions are ethical AI and the challenges that fast paced technological change poses; and neurodiversity in the workplace.

Event format: There will be a short introduction at the start from Dr Lollie Mancey sharing insights about the book and its themes. She will lead a discussion about it.

About the book: The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A Farahany

A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions. Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the "universal controller" for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.

About TechFoundHer

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Thanks so much to Jennifer Thornton and Marita Kenrick (for helping organise the TechFoundHer Bookclub)!