by Andrew Maynard | Oct 2, 2017 | Emerging Technology, Engagement, Future, Responsible Innovation, Space
Elon Musk has a plan, and it’s about as audacious as they come. Not content with living on our pale blue dot, Musk and his company SpaceX want to colonize Mars, fast. They say they’ll send a duo of supply ships to the red planet within five years. By 2024, they’re...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 26, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Public Health, Responsible Innovation
In 2014, over 32,000 people were killed in car crashes in the U.S. In 2012, more than two million Americans visited the emergency room as a result of car crashes. And an estimated 94 percent of the crashes that cause these injuries and fatalities are attributable to...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 15, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Ethics, Future, Responsible Innovation, Technology Innovation
Imagine infusing thousands of wireless devices into your brain, and using them to both monitor its activity and directly influence its actions. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and for the moment it still is – but possibly not for long. Brain research is...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 23, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Future, Responsible Innovation, Technology Innovation
Elon Musk – CEO of Tesla Motors – has just revealed the second part of his master plan for the company. And it’s a doozy. Not content with producing sleek electric cars (which to be fair, was only ever a stepping stone to greater things), Musk wants to fundamentally...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 23, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Future, Responsible Innovation, Risk
Take an advanced technology. Add a twist of fantasy. Stir well, and watch the action unfold. It’s the perfect recipe for a Hollywood tech-disaster blockbuster. And clichéd as it is, it’s the scenario that we too often imagine for emerging technologies. Think...
by Andrew Maynard | May 17, 2016 | Nanotechnology, Public Health, Responsible Innovation, Risk
There’s a lot of stuff you’d expect to find in baby formula: proteins, carbs, vitamins, essential minerals. But parents probably wouldn’t anticipate finding extremely small, needle-like particles. Yet this is exactly what a team of scientists here at Arizona State...
