The use of techno-utopian narratives to further corporate control
Techno-utopianism (n.) − any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfil one or another utopian ideal. It is tempting to dismiss techno-utopian views as the realm of fringe...
Public engagement and the National Enabling Technologies Strategy
Nanotechnology marks one of the first times where ‘upstream engagement’ has become a central part of government technology policy in many OECD countries, including Australia. Joly and Kaufmann define public engagement as “a form of two-way...
Regulatory failure or institutional corruption? The case of Food Standards Australia New Zealand and the ‘regulation’ of nanomaterials in food
Let’s start with a really basic proposition: emerging technologies often represent unknown risks to human health and the environment; before these technologies are introduced into the body or environment, the safety of these new technologies and products must be...
Geopiracy: Patent law, climate change, and geoengineering
Patent law is a regime of intellectual property, which provides exclusive rights regarding scientific inventions, which are novel, inventive, and useful. There has been much debate over the limits of patentable subject matter relating to emerging technologies. The...Crazytech
Stupid technologies we don't need.....
And that could destroy life on Earth.
And that could destroy life on Earth.