The Future of Work Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/35-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:42:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png The Future of Work Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/35-1/ 32 32 Regulating Gene-Edited Crops https://issues.org/regulating-gene-edited-crops/ https://issues.org/regulating-gene-edited-crops/#respond Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:26:40 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16999 Crop gene editing emerged just over a decade ago as a promising set of biotechnology techniques designed to more quickly and precisely introduce new or altered genes to change plant characteristics for… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/regulating-gene-edited-crops/feed/ 0 Money Well Spent? https://issues.org/money-well-spent/ https://issues.org/money-well-spent/#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:30:37 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=17007 Measuring the Economic Value of Research is an important book, edited by a distinguished group of researchers who focus on the science of science policy, an emerging interdisciplinary approach to evaluating the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/money-well-spent/feed/ 0 Fixing an Imperfect Labor Market Information System https://issues.org/fixing-an-imperfect-labor-market-information-system/ https://issues.org/fixing-an-imperfect-labor-market-information-system/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:00:59 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16995 Adam Smith explained that market economies operate through an “invisible hand,” but what was that hand? In 1945 Friedrich Hayek argued that a market is an information system, and the challenge facing… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/fixing-an-imperfect-labor-market-information-system/feed/ 0 New Principles for Assessing Scientists https://issues.org/new-principles-for-assessing-scientists/ https://issues.org/new-principles-for-assessing-scientists/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:07:21 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16976 How should academic institutions best assess science and scientists? Burgeoning interest in this question accompanies a growing recognition of significant problems in how scientific research is conducted and reported. The right questions… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/new-principles-for-assessing-scientists/feed/ 0 Lords of the Universe https://issues.org/lords-of-the-universe/ https://issues.org/lords-of-the-universe/#respond Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:36:02 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=17010 The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos provides a chronology that traces the trajectory of three space“barons”: Elon Musk, the South African immigrant founder of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/lords-of-the-universe/feed/ 0 Asking the Right Questions in Alzheimer’s Research https://issues.org/asking-the-right-questions-in-alzheimers-research/ https://issues.org/asking-the-right-questions-in-alzheimers-research/#respond Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:00:49 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16997 I recently watched the final episode of the Wallander television
series with Kenneth Branagh in the role of the eponymous Swedish police
detective. Wallander is given his diagnosis of familial Alzheimer’s disease… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/asking-the-right-questions-in-alzheimers-research/feed/ 0 Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks https://issues.org/ground-truth-corona-landmarks/ https://issues.org/ground-truth-corona-landmarks/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:00:41 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17270 In this series of images of what remains of the Corona project, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer investigate our relationship to the vast networks of information that encircle the globe. The Corona… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ground-truth-corona-landmarks/feed/ 0 Research Universities and the Future of Work https://issues.org/research-universities-and-the-future-of-work/ https://issues.org/research-universities-and-the-future-of-work/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:30:13 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16991 Growing national concern about the future of
work has three main causes. The first is technological: astonishingly rapid
advances in artificial intelligence and the accompanying likelihood that it
will supplant human tasks… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/research-universities-and-the-future-of-work/feed/ 0 A Modern Plague https://issues.org/a-modern-plague/ https://issues.org/a-modern-plague/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:00:17 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=17001 For anyone who thinks of influenza as a
biomedical problem with biomedical solutions, there is a lesson to be learned
from Laura Spinney’s book on the 1918 flu pandemic, Pale
Rider:… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/a-modern-plague/feed/ 0 Rethinking the Race Between Education & Technology https://issues.org/rethinking-the-race-between-education-technology/ https://issues.org/rethinking-the-race-between-education-technology/#respond Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:18:36 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=16987 Technological innovation is changing the nature
of many jobs and the qualifications employers seek in their workers, convincing
more young people to pursue a college education and other postsecondary
credentials—at least according… Read More

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