News Release

June 16, 2005

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Open Minds and Open Markets
Event promises to be informative and entertaining

WASHINGTON - The Cato Institute will be hosting a seminar luncheon, "Liberty, Technology, and Prosperity," on Friday, June 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco.

The event, co-sponsored by The Economist, will feature nationally acclaimed Bay Area radio talk show host Gene Burns and one of the nation's leading experts on privacy issues Jim Harper, Cato's director of information policy studies, who will discuss identification in the digital age and the potential threats to civil liberties through government regulation. In addition, Ed Crane, president of the Cato Institute, will offer some thoughts on the need to improve the level of constitutional debate in America, and Joel Garreau, Washington Post reporter and editor, will discuss the topic of his new book, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human.

The event is public and open to the media. As a convenience you can register online.