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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #46A:
Technological Fix |
| The Center
for Science in the Public Interest |
| The
Technological Fix (from Clemson University professor) |
| Technology
Review (popular magazine from MIT) |
| Cleantechnica
(clean energy / renewable energy news and links to many articles) |
| The
Stone Age Institute: Technology, Adaptation, Evolution |
| International
Center for Technology Assessment |
| The
MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change |
| Environmental
Issues -- online reports from The National Academy of Sciences |
| International
Issues -- online reports from The National Academy of Sciences |
| Can
Technology Replace Social Engineering? by Alvin Weinberg |
| Will
Technology Save Us From Overpopulation?, by Julia Sommerfeld, MSNBC |
| Nature's
Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies ed.
by Kenny Ausubel and J. P. Harpignies
(from Sierra Club Books) |
| Google’s
new quantum chip--it claims ‘cracks a key challenge’ that’s existed
for almost 3 decades by Dave Smith (from Yahoo News, December
10 2024) |
| MIT
engineers achieve solar power breakthrough that could affect drinking
water of millions by Kristin Lawrence (from The Cool Down
December 2 2024) |
| How
to stop plastic pollution: three strategies that actually work by Nicola
Jones (from nature.com November 27 2024) |
| Extreme
weather events.increases need for resilient grid / underground lines. by
N. Dolsak and A. Prakash (from
Forbes November 23 2024) |
| Is
nuclear power gaining new energy? by Theo Leggett
(BBC News , November 20 2024) |
| The
next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-foot-high battery by Amy
Gunia (from CNN August 6 2024)
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Scientists
find adding rock dust to agricultural fertilizer can boost crop yields by
over 15% by Tina Deines (from The Cool Down, June 4, 2024)
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Green
Energy: The Second Age of Sail (from The Economist May 25 2024)
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How
melting glaciers could help stop global warming by Dino Grandoni
(using "rock flour" report, from The Washington Post
April 6 2024)
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Uzbekistan
recently broke ground on the region’s first green hydrogen-wind plant by
Leslie Sattler (report from Yahoo News Jan 27 2024)
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Elon
Musk's Neuralink has Implanted its First Chip in a Human Brain. What's
Next? by Ben Guarino (from Scientific American online Jan 30
2024)
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Natural
Hydrogen Could Change the World, If We Understood It
by David Ficking (post on Bloomberg July 31 2023)
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Device
hits 20% solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency by Silvia Clark-Rice
(posted July 24 2023 on Futurity.org site)
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"Form
Energy to deploy 100-hour iron-air battery system in Georgia"
by Ashwini Sakharkar (posted
on InceptiveMind July 1 2023)
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"Electric
Water Heaters Are Better at Storing Energy Than a Tesla Powerwall" by
Darren Orf
(posted on Popular Mechanics June 9 2023)
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Climate
technology--carbon removal (report
from The Economist May 27 2023)
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Worries
about Artificial Intelligence (report
from The Economist April 22 2023)
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"It
is harder for new electric grids to balance supply and demand" (part
of “Technology Quarterly” report from The Economist, April 5
2023)
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Genomics:
Twenty Years Later (reviews important biotechnology developments, from
The Economist April15 2023)
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Smaller,
safer, cheaper? Modular nuclear plants could reshape coal country by Evan
Halper (from The Washington Post Feb 19 2023)
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Planting
Bamboo to Fight Climate Change (one example from inventory of project Drawdown
ways to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere)
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This new
idea could reduce steel’s carbon emissions by 90% by B. David Zarley
(post on Freethink Feb 5 2023)
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Fusion
energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
by
Tom Wilson
(story posted on ARS Technica Dec 12 2022)
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Rolls
Royce rolls out hydrogen jet engine by Saul Elbein (posted on The
Hill Nov 28 2022)
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Genetic Modification--Realizing the Revolution (from
The Economist August 27 2022)
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The
First Underground Warren for Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel
(report from The Economist June 25 2022)
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"Wyoming
Has Become Test Case for Carbon Capture" by Nicholas Kusnetz
(Inside Climate News May 29, 2022)
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Carbon
Nanotechnology--Pouring Graphene's Bright Future
(report from The Economist May 21 2022)
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The
Discrete Charm of Nuclear Power (oped from The Economist
November 13 2021)
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This
ingenious wall could harness enough wind power to cover your electric bill
by Elissaveta M. Brandon (posted on fastcompany.com
Oct 19 2021)
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"Technion
researchers discover cheap way to extract hydrogen fuel from H2O"
(September 14 2021 Israeli news report)
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3D
Printing and Construction (report from The Economist August 21
2021)
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"Swedish
Group Delivers the World’s First Batch of Green Steel" by Dharna
Noor (from Gizmodo Aug 20 2021)
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“New
molten salt battery for grid-scale storage runs at low temp and cost” By
Nick Lavars (July
21 2021 report from New Atlas)
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“Making
clean hydrogen is hard, but researchers just solved a major hurdle”
(report from
UT
Austin July 19 2021)
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Fusion
Power—commercial development progress (report from The Economist
June 26 2021)
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“The
Future of Mining” (article from The Economist June 26 2021)
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"Hydrogen
Powered Flight" (report from The Economist December 12
2020)
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“After
many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit”
(report from The Economist July
4 2020)
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"Ten
big global challenges technology could solve--None
is easy, but all are incredibly important" (article in MIT Technology Review Feb 27, 2019
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"Redesigning
Life: The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology" (oped leader
from The Economist April 6 2019)
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"'Sun
in a box' would store renewable energy for the grid
" (Dec 5 2018 based on MIT report)
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"The
scientist still fighting for the clean fuel the world forgot"
by James Temple ( from May
15, 2018 MIT Technology
Review)
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“Why
Nuclear Fusion Is Back. Again.” by AP writers & Scott Montgomery (post from
University of Washington profgessor, on Popular Mechanics April 9
2018)
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Cell
Free Biotech Will Make for Better Products (article from The
Economist May 6 2017)
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The
Great Convergence—Information Technology and the New Globalisation by
Richard Baldwin (book review from The Economist November 19 2016)
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| Homo
Deus: A Brief History of
Tomorrow by Y. Harari (review by Tim Adams on The Guardian Sept 11 2016) |
| "Growing
Leather in Factories" (report in The Economist August
26 2017) |
|
The
Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant
Technologies by E. Brynjolfssen, A. McAfee (review of 2013 book) |
| Alone
Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by
Sherry Turkle (Bill Moyers talks with author of this 2013 book) |
|
The
Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All by Chris
Goodall (review by Pilita Clark of this 2016 book posted on the Financial
Times)
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| "Artificial
Intelligence: March of the Machines" (leader for cover story re:
lengthy section on this topic in The Economist June 25 2016) |
| "Mobile
Telecoms--Wireless: The Next Generation"
(report on new wave of mobile technology from The Economist
Feb 20 2016)
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| "Novel
'nano-reactor' pumps out hydrogen biofuel"
by Brooks Hays | (Jan. 5, 2016 report
from Science News) |
| "Genome
Editing: The Age of the Red Pen" (cover story on the ultimate
technological fix from The
Economist August 22, 2015) |
| "Technology
in Africa--The Pioneering Continent" (article from The
Economist Apr 25 2015)\ |
| "A
Long Way From Zero--NYC Takes On Traffic Fatalities" (tech fix
approach to traffic safety, PBS News Hour Nov 23 2014) |
| "Thorium Reactors: Asgard's Fire"
(article about promising nuclear reactor technology from The Economist April 12 2014) |
| "The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel" by James Fallows
(cover story from The Atlantic Nov 2013) |
| Carbonic Computer--Cylinder Head"
(article about first computer from carbon nanotubes, in The Economist Sep 28 2013 |
| "Labels
for GMO Foods Are a Bad Idea" (opinion piece about genetically
modified foods from the editors of Scientific American Sep 2013) |
| Elon
Musk on the Hyperloop: His High Speed Inter City Transportation Proposed
Technology (Aug 12 2013 story from Bloomberg Business Week) |
| "Stem Cell Therapies:
Prometheus Unbound" (article from The Economist July 6 2013) |
| "The Cure for Obesity" by David Freedman
(about the rethinking/reengineering of junk food, from The Atlantic July 2013) |
| "To
Save Everything, Click Here" by Evgeny Morozov (review of this
2013 book skeptical of technical "solutionist" mentality, on The
Guardian website) |
| "A
Strange Computer Promises Great Speed" by Quentin Hardy (Mar 2013
NY Times report on Lockheed Martin's quantum computer) |
| "One
Rat Brain 'Talks' To Another Using Electronic Link" by Jen Whyntie
(Feb 28 2013 BBC News report) |
| "The
Robot Will See You Now" by Jonathan Cohn (article about the
future of computers in medicine from The Atlantic March 2013) |
| "Has
the Ideas Machine Broken Down?" (article about innovation and new
technology from The Economist Jan 2013) |
| "Technology and Geography: A Sense of Place"
(special report from The Economist Oct 27 2012) |
| "A Third Industrial Revolution"
(special report by The Economist April 21 2012 issue) |
| "Germany
Embarks on Historic Alternative Energy Push" (Mar 19 2012 report
posted on Common Dreams website) |
| The
Quest by Daniel Yergin (Sept 20 2011 NY Times book review by
Dwight Garner) |
| Biology is Technology by Rob Carlson
(2010 book from Harvard University Press, read excerpts at website) |
| What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
(read excerpts at Technium of this 2010 book from Viking/Penguin) |
| The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
(2009 book offers theory on origins, evolution of
technology) |
| Environment,
Technology, and the Economy (from Business Roundtable) |
| Managing
the Risks of Technological Change (ch. 3 in book from UN's Human
Development Reports Program) |
| Human
Contributions and Responses to Environmental Change (a
2003 report from US Climate Change Science Program) |
| U.S.
Government Science & Technology Web Resources |
| Science
and Technology for Canadians: Environment, Air, Climate (many links) |
| Center for
Democracy and Technology ("working for democratic values in a
digital age") |
| Issues
in Science & Technology--national academies reports |
| Engineering--Popular
Programs (links to two dozen UCTV programs on this topic) |
| "Artificial
Intelligence: machines for thinking" (review of books related to
this topic from The Economist October 3 2015) |
| Singularity--2045:
The Year Man Becomes Immortal by Lev Grossman (Feb 21 2011 Time cover
story) |
|
The
Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
(to some Kurzweil is “technology’s prophet" and this 2005
book is his gospel)
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| "Time
for OTA," by Ralph Nader (2010 article urging U.S. Office of
Technology Assessment be reinstated) |
| "Who's
Afraid of Synthetic Biology? by Ronald Bailey (from Reason May
25, 2010) |
| Power Trip:
From Oil Wells to Solar Cells by Amanda Little (more about this 2009
book) |
| Tech.view
(weekly "column on the science and gadgetry of everyday life"
from The Economist) |
| Automotive
Technology: The Future of Cars (article in Scientific American
Nov 2009 issue) |
| Automotive
Technology: Plug in America (organization promoting "the shift to
plug in vehicles") |
| Total Recall by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
(2009 book about "the E memory revolution") |
| "Who
Needs the Grid?" by Lane Wallace (re: new fuel cell technology,
from The Atlantic December 2009) |
| "Stem
Cell Research: The Quest Resumes," by Alice Park (article in Time
February 9 2009) |
| "Finding Energy All
Around Us," by Bryan Walsh (micro-power sources, article in Time March 17 2008) |
| "The
Farmer's Bank," by Bryan Walsh (insuring agriculture vs.
doomsday, article in Time February 11 2008) |
| "Blueprint
Brigade," by Bryan Walsh (article about Engineers Without Borders
in Time December 10 2007) |
| "Green
Motors / The History of the Electric Car," by Bryan Walsh (in Time,
on web, October 22, 2007) |
| The
Design of Future Things, by Donald Norman (review of this 2007 book) |
| When
Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences Of Progress by Chellis
Glendinning (review by Lee Dembart Los Angeles Times April
1990) |
| Science
& Technology Studies Links (from NC State University, policy research focus) |
| National
Center for Biotechnology Information |
| Applying
the Precautionary Principle to Nanotechnology (from the Center for
Responsible Nanotechnology) |
|
Dictionary of Technical
Terms for Aerospace Use (comprehensive NASA effort, a bit dated) |
| quotes
related to science and technology |