Freedom vs. Dignity: A Sustainable History Thesis for the Arab Spring
A protester in Egypt, 2011. Image: Kodak Agfa. The Arab Spring is perhaps the most important transformative movement since the revolutions that swept through Eastern Europe in 1989. For many countries...
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An artist’s rendition of the new light-bending metamaterial, as published in a National Science Foundation press release, October 2007.Image: Keith Drake. Fiction and reality have meshed to incredible...
View ArticleProgrammable Matter: 4D Printing’s Promises and Risks
A 3D printer in action at Makers Party Bangalore 2013, an event hosted by Mozilla India and Hive Learning Center. Despite its novelty, 3D printing has already been rendered yesterday’s news by the...
View ArticleThe Security Implications and Existential Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence
wired.co.uk Emerging technologies and their possible implications for ethics, security, and even human existence have increasingly gained ground in the past two decades. Some innovations have resulted...
View ArticleBrain Gain: The Emerging Security and Ethical Challenges of Cognitive...
(Kuba Bożanowski, Flickr Commons) The radically accelerating development of emerging strategic technologies (ESTs) poses important questions for the future of human societies. On the one hand, ESTs...
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