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FDA is about ready to approve a modified species of Atlantic salmon for land-based fish-farming. Why not?
Archive for the ‘Technology and Society’ Category
October 3rd, 2011
Category: Reviews, Technology and Society
This is my favorite tech gadget in at least a year. Just buy one, whether you’re taking notes in class or doing interview research. The basic idea is that the pen contains audio recording hardware and software, and a camera that looks where it is writing. The paper is covered with an almost invisible light-blue [...]
September 13th, 2011
Category: Health and Medicine, Technology and Society
My colleague Dr. Elias Aboujaoude has made a name for himself as an interpreter of how social networking affects our emotions and identity. Stanford’s SCOPE blog recently interviewed him about the way that the Internet is changing how people grieve losses and traumas, such as the 9/11 atrocities. Among his points is that because almost [...]
September 2nd, 2011
A solar power station in Spain runs for 24 hours, and the overhyped intermittency problem.
August 1st, 2011
Category: Technology and Society
The new technology we have to communicate is amazing and wonderful. Yet I suspect many people would still at some moments resonate to these words of the actor Daniel Craig: The quotidian turn in proceedings prompts a query as to whether Craig is on Facebook. “No, I am bloody not,” he says vehemently. “And I’m [...]
June 12th, 2011
The APA Monitor has an interview with Dr. Sherry Turkle who has documented how iphones, blackberries and other mobile devices have reduced the amount of attention users pay to people who are physically present. I love the technology as much as the next person, but there is something sad in reading that fathers are emailing [...]
June 4th, 2011
A plea for integrating the reduction of medical costs in major medical research programmes.
May 29th, 2011
Category: Britain, Built Environment, Energy and Environment, Europe, Infrastructure, Technology and Society
A gallery of designer pylons and a British government pylon competition.
