by Guest | Dec 16, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By Richard Owen, University of Westminster, UK A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series This article was first published in Planet Earth, an award-winning magazine funded and published by the UK Natural Environment Research Council...
by Guest | Dec 15, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Nanotechnology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By Georgia Miller, Friends of the Earth Australia A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series The promise that a given new technology will deliver environmentally benign electricity too cheap to meter, end hunger and poverty, or cure...
by Guest | Dec 14, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Technology innovation in the 21st century
By Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, Associate Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series Much appreciation is due to Andrew for his courage in soliciting “alternative perspectives” on...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 9, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Future, Rethinking Science & Technology
The final part of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Nine months ago, I embarked on an ambitious project to flesh out the ideas presented in a seminar given at the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. The...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 7, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Technology innovation in the 21st century
Part 9 of a series on rethinking science and technology for the 21st century Writing about completing the circle of science and technology policy at the start of the Copenhagen climate summit seems particularly fitting. Although the climate change context was far...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 22, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Policy
As this weekend’s Summit on the Global Agenda came to a close this morning, I was left with an abiding impression of a looming yet largely hidden potential crisis in global security and prosperity: A failure to develop and use technology innovation effectively...
