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Science and Technology Issues Society
Science and Technology Issues Society
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- Homepage of author and radio host Whitley Strieber, covering alternative and mainstream science news and debates.
- British Broadcasting Corporation interviews Nigerian computer and Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, on what science and technology can do for Africa in the Information Age.
- Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical controversies, global energy and resource issues, alternative technologies, and global population and consumption.
- A report concerned with the analysis of one particular article that a German physicist published in Nature in 1938, the background of its publication and the response to it. The article had antisemitic aspects even as it was an article about scientific
- An excerpt from the transcript of the (imaginary, but based on real quotations) proceedings of the advisory committee on ecological catastrophe, charged with producing three policy recommendations.
- How the second industrial revolution ( miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating and impoverishing our community.
- Mailing list and links to articles from UCLA professor Phil Agre about social and political aspects of computing and networking.
- Establishing online, intellectual communities of scientists, classroom teachers, and science learners focused on current controversies in science that concern scientists and also connect to the interests of the general public.
- The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science & Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
- News, publications, conferences, and case studies about using technology in state and local government.
- Interactive knowledge organization, combining major world wide universities who manage this searchable database. Project is presently launching.
- A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society.
- Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities.
- Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
- Keeping up with technology's developments is central to anticipating its social effects. Includes links to news reports on nanotechnology, advanced computing, space, and cryogenics.
- Resources from the Pacific Research Institute supporting ways to promote opportunity, innovation, and economic growth by limiting government intervention in the electronic frontier.
- Nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C., providing news and information on technology related issues and their effect on society.
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