"Television and Children: Why Let Others Tell You What's Best for Your Child?" Talk to the Parent-Teacher Group at Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent, New York (May 8, 2002).

"Why Bother with TV Turnoff Week?" Talk to the assembled high school students at Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent, New York (April 22, 2002).

"Our Speaking, Nature's Becoming". Talk given at a symposium entitled, "Conversing with the Intelligence in Nature", Columbia University (April 25-27, 2002). The symposium was sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Spiritual Foundations of Education at Columbia Teachers College, and by The Nature Institute.

Participation in the working group on "Technology Literacy for Ecologically Sustainable Democracy", sponsored by the Alliance for Childhood, The Nature Institute, and the Education Department of Wittenberg University. The group's purpose was to draft a set of guidelines for technology education in primary and secondary schools.

"The Deceiving Virtues of Technology". A plenary address at the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. (August 6-9, 2001).

"Technology and Humanity: Does the Future Compute?" A one-week course at the Rudolf Steiner Institute, Waterville, Maine (July 16-20, 2001).

"Why Not Globalization". Plenary address at the Technology and Globalization Teach-In, Hunter College, New York City (February 24-25, 2001). Sponsored by the International Forum on Globalization, New York Open Center, Lapis Magazine, and the International Center for Technology Assessment.

"The Child of the Machine: Your Child in the Age of Technology". In the Mountaintop Workshop Series for Parents and Educators Who Care, Hunter, New York (February 13, 2001).

"Transcending the Machines in Our Midst". Public lecture sponsored by the Institute of New Dimensions, Hackensack, New Jersey (December 12, 2000).

"Is High Technology Turning Us into Zombies?" Address in the Lecture Series in the Humanities and Sciences, EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, Massachusetts (July 14, 2000).

"Does the Future Compute?" and "Dreaming of Silicon Immortality". Two half-day workshops at the Rudolf Steiner Centre, Toronto, Ontario (September 29-30, 2000).

"Is High Technology Turning Us into Zombies?" EMC Corporation, Lecture Series in the Humanities and Sciences, Hopkinton, Massachusetts (July 14, 2000)

"Information Technology is the Root Cause of Environmental Destruction. Why Should We Look to It for Healing?" Invited lecture at the conference, "PlaNetwork: Global Ecology and Information Technology", San Francisco, California (May 12-14, 2000).

Public conference on "The Computer and the Young Child", sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Spiritual Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City (April 29, 2000). I was a respondent to lectures by Jane Healy and Alison Armstrong.

"Transcending the Machines in Our Midst", lecture for faculty, parents, and the public at the London Waldorf School, London, Ontario (April 5, 2000).

"How Technology Can Enslave Us", luncheon address, tenth annual conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Toronto (April 4-7, 2000).

"How Technology Alienates Us from the World", lecture as part of a workshop, "Do We Need Biotechnology to Feed the World?" conducted by The Nature Institute, Harlemville (Ghent), New York (April 1, 2000).

"The Most Dangerous Computer Is the One in Your Head". Invited address, annual conference of the Central Regional Division of the Detroit Waldorf School. I also conducted a workshop on "Thinking about the Computer in the Classroom" (February 17-19, 2000).

"Awakening to Ourselves in the Age of Intelligent Machines". Banquet address, Eastern Small College Computing Conference, St. Bonaventure College, Olean, New York (October 15, 1999).

"Awakening to Ourselves in the Age of Intelligent Machines". Keynote address at the Fall, 1999 conference of the Association of Professional Librarians of New Brunswick, Moncton, New Brunswick (October 2, 1999).

"The Strange Disappearance of Earth: Is Cyberspace a Black Hole?" Lecture at the University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick (October 1, 1999). Co-sponsored by the University and the Association of Professional Librarians of New Brunswick.

"The Global Compulsions of Technology". Workshop conducted at the conference on "The Threefold Social Order and Elite Globalization", sponsored by the Social Science Section of the Anthroposophical Society of America, New Lebanon, New York, July 9 - 11, 1999.

Guest Professorship, Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria (June, 1999). I taught a course on "Coming to Terms with Technology".

"Virtual Spirituality and the Destruction of the World". Invited lecture at the conference on "Rite, Cult, Virtuality", Graz, Austria, sponsored by the Institute for Fundamental Theology at Karl Franzens University, and the European Society for Catholic Theology.

"Is the Computer Helping to Destroy Childhood?" Lecture sponsored by the Parent Outreach Committee of the Waldorf School of Garden City and the Anthroposophical Initiative Group of Long Island (April 23, 1999).

"Using Digital Technologies Responsibly". A talk and discussion with the high school student body of the Waldorf School of Garden City (April 23, 1999).

"Owen Barfield and Technological Society". Lecture at the Owen Barfield Centenary Celebration, Columbia University and Drew University (December 4 - 5, 1998).

"Abstracting Ourselves to Death". Lecture in series entitled "cyberwhat.lvc.edu," at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania (November 17, 1998). In addition, I taught two follow-up class sessions.

"Abandoning the Earth". Lecture in series sponsored by Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania (November 18, 1998).

"How Distance-Collapsing Technologies Move Us Farther Apart". Keynote address, Annual Great Issues Forum sponsored by the Utah Library Association, Salt Lake City, Utah (November 10, 1998).

"The Computer in the Classroom: An Answer without a Question". Lecture in the Greater West Michigan Education Lecture Series, sponsored by the Grand Valley State University School of Education, Grand Rapids, Michigan (October 29, 1998).

"Can We Transcend Technology?" Lecture in public lecture series sponsored by Camphill Village, Copake, New York (October 25, 1998).

"The Human Quest through Art and Technology". A lecture and weekend course taught with sculptor Michael Howard, Sunbridge College, Spring Valley, New York (September 25-26, 1998).

"There is No Such Thing as Information". Keynote address, Netspeed '98, conference of The Alberta Library, Calgary, Alberta (September 17-19, 1998).

"Why All the Fuss about Information?". Keynote address, annual conference of the Reference and User Services Association, division of the American Library Association, Washington, D.C. (June 29, 1998).

"The Transfer of Information is Not Education". Lecture sponsored by the National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (April 16, 1998).

"The Computer and the Child". Paper read at the Jacques Ellul Symposium of the thirteenth annual conference on Science, Technology, and Society, Naperville, Illinois (March 5-7, 1998).

"Why Computer-based Education is Failing (and How to Do It Right)". Address to the annual Professional Educators' Convention in Des Moines, Iowa, March 2, 1998.

"Why is the Moon Getting Farther Away? Helping the Child Connect to the World". Lecture at the conference on "Education and Technology: Seeking The Human Essentials," Columbia Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (December 4-6, 1997).

"Help Me! I Can't Stop Shoveling Facts!" Paper delivered to the conference on "Education and Technology: Asking the Right Questions" at Pennsylvania State University, State College, Penn. (September 17-20, 1997).

"Aversion to Risks -- or Loss of Meaning?" Paper delivered to the 1997 inaugural conference of the New Jersey Communication Association, Montclair, New Jersey (April 26, 1997).

"On Being Determinedly Literate". Lecture to the Walter J. Ong Seminar, Fordham University, April 17, 1997.

"Christianity in an Age of Automatic Mechanisms". Keynote and follow-on lecture at the conference on "Real Christianity in a Virtual Culture", Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Virginia (March 13-15, 1997).

"Forgetting Ourselves in an Age of Abstraction". Paper read at the 54th annual convention of the New York State Speech Communication Association, October 11-13, 1996, with Neil Postman as respondent.

"Does the Internet Have a Future?" Keynote address delivered to conference on "The Internet: Hype or Reality?" Sydney, Australia (June 24-25, 1996).

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