Educating the Worker of the Future Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/31-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:23:11 +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 Educating the Worker of the Future Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/31-4/ 32 32 Bomb Control https://issues.org/book-review-bomb-control/ https://issues.org/book-review-bomb-control/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13334 The provocative title for this provocative book by Elaine Scarry at once declares that humanity’s most destructive weapons of mass destruction are in too few (often just two) hands, and declaims against… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-bomb-control/feed/ 0 Wiki-ki Yay? Not so Fast https://issues.org/book-review-wiki-ki-yay-not-so-fast/ https://issues.org/book-review-wiki-ki-yay-not-so-fast/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13337 For people who work with information, Wikipedia is endlessly fascinating because of its swift emergence as an everyday source of usually reliable facts and observations about people, places, and things. Yet despite… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-wiki-ki-yay-not-so-fast/feed/ 0 Archives – Summer 2015 https://issues.org/archives-64/ https://issues.org/archives-64/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13339 Skeletal Reflections
Chico MacMurtrie’s Skeletal Reflections is an interactive robot sculpture that has stored in its memory a library of body postures from classic painting and sculpture. A camera/computer attached to the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-64/feed/ 0 Forum – Summer 2015 https://issues.org/forum-26/ https://issues.org/forum-26/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13305 Whither universities?
In “A New Model for the American Research University” (Issues, Spring 2015), Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars argue that public and private research universities are stuck… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-26/feed/ 0 From the Hill – Summer 2015 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-5/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-5/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13309 “From the Hill” is adapted from the e-newsletter Policy Alert, ­published by the Office of Government Relations of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (www.aaas.org) in Washington, DC.
House Appropriations… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-5/feed/ 0 Regulating Genetic Engineering: The Limits and Politics of Knowledge https://issues.org/perspective-regulating-genetic-engineering-the-limits-and-politics-of-knowledge/ https://issues.org/perspective-regulating-genetic-engineering-the-limits-and-politics-of-knowledge/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13311 For many people based in the United Kingdom, as we are, memories of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, remain vivid. We recall, in particular, that during the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-regulating-genetic-engineering-the-limits-and-politics-of-knowledge/feed/ 0 Climate Clubs to Overcome Free-Riding https://issues.org/climate-clubs-overcome-free-riding-climate-agreement-policy/ https://issues.org/climate-clubs-overcome-free-riding-climate-agreement-policy/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13314 Climate clubs are a policy option that will put pressure on countries to participate in global agreements—or pay a price.
Much progress has been made by scientists and economists in understanding the… Read More

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Burning wood was an important… Read More

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This spring, a new but widely available technology… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/coordinating-technology-governance/feed/ 0 Educating the Future Workforce https://issues.org/educating-the-future-workforce/ https://issues.org/educating-the-future-workforce/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=13322 Work ain’t what is used to be, and in the future it won’t be what it is now. Standardization, mechanization, electrification, and now robotification and computerization have driven constant upheaval. At each… Read More

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