21st Century Tech Governance? What would Ned Ludd do?

by Guest | Dec 18, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Policy, Technology innovation in the 21st century

By Jim Thomas, ETC Group A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series For a fresh perspective on how to do technology governance consider starting somewhere else. I suggest York Castle in Northern England – a stark stone tower...

Innovation in the dock

by Guest | Dec 18, 2009 | Guest Post, Technology innovation in the 21st century

By Tim Jackson, University of Surrey, UK A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series Are we a clever species or a stupid one?  It’s not a trivial question. Put our society in the dock with a jury of our future peers and the verdict...

Reversing the Technological Dilemma

by Guest | Dec 17, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Synthetic Biology, Technology innovation in the 21st century

By George Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, and the Center for Food Safety A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series Andrew asked us to write about “how technological innovation should contribute to life in...

Ecology and Nanotechnology

by Guest | Dec 17, 2009 | Emerging Technology, Guest Post, Nanotechnology, Technology innovation in the 21st century

By Richard Worthington, Loka Institute A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series My first scholarly engagement with environmental politics was an honor’s thesis written while I was an undergraduate at Berkeley in the early 1970s. ...

A new era of responsible innovation

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...

Stop and Think: A Luddite Perspective

by Guest | Dec 16, 2009 | Guest Post, Technology innovation in the 21st century

By Jennifer Sass Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series We need make sure that harmful or untested nano-scale chemicals are not manufactured or commercialized in ways that...