Impact of science and technology on society

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.

A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.

Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life-from governing bodies to newsrooms-is low.

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

An examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical recommendations for increasing global data sharing.

Employing a global approach to feminist theory, this book examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures.

How did the cosmos, and our own special part of it, come to be?

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.

Individuals are things that everybody knows-or thinks they do.

Fascination with satellite television and Internet technology has become an obsession.

Do science and technology create value for society and the economy, and how might one go about measuring it?

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous.

While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values.

Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching of the theory of evolution because of its association with atheism.

Part II: Engineering Decisions in the 21st Century Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments.

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light.

Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society.

Discover the extraordinary role of plants in modern forensics, from their use as evidence in the trials of high profile murderers such as Ted Bundy to high value botanical trafficking and poaching.

Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy.

The powerful potential of digital media to engage citizens in political actions has now crossed our news screens many times.

This resource helps readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political impact of American views of religious faith and scientific inquiry.

Beth Porter presents The Net Effect exploring not just how it evolved and what it does, but how it relates to the way we live.

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending.

"e;An invaluable primer for anyone seeking to understand why our networked world isn't all that it is cracked up to be.

The Virtual Self is an engaging and exciting text that addresses issues relating to our rapidly changing society, social structure, and communication needs.

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H.

This book presents the systematic evolution of digitized education: trends, advances, challenges encountered and their solutions toward the use of advanced technologies.

A Companion to Genethics is the first substantial study of the multifaceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social and political significance.

The modern world is filled with debate and controversy, and science and technology-the most characteristic features of the modern world-are not immune.

The search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars?

Why-against his mentor's exhortations to publish-did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection?

In this book, historian Maria M.

Digital Broadcasting presents an introduction to how the classic notion of 'broadcasting' has evolved and is being reinterpreted in an age of digitization and convergence.

The blind person who tries to make an online purchase.

Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local.

A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.

This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other.

In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments.

Das Klima schützen und Gottes Schöpfung bewahren: der Mensch im Einklang mit der Natur Ein irdisches Paradies ist möglich – das zeigt Michael Schurwanz in seinem erhellenden und motivierenden Buch über die Bewältigung der Klimakrise.

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A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture.

Can we master the technologies we create before they master us?