| Sumario: | This article explains that New York, N.Y.-based Columbia University hosts a series of continuing education seminars, dinners, lectures, and conferences that explore the diffusion of technological change and its social impact. Subjects of seminars include genetics and human evolution, the Atlantic community, technology and social change, and the city. More than half of the 900 male and female participants hold positions in government, philanthropic foundations, museums, industry, hospitals, and labor unions. The seminars proceed in the same manner: dinner, listening to a speaker, and inquiries by seminar members.
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