Visit our website
New America Cypbersecurity Initiative
New America Cypbersecurity Initiative
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
io9
io9
Techdirt
Techdirt
Knowledge@Wharton
Knowledge@Wharton
Bioscience Technology
Bioscience Technology
redOrbit
redOrbit
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Popular Science Blog
Popular Science Blog
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center
Genomics Law Report
Genomics Law Report
Science 2.0
Science 2.0
The Guardian Headquarters
The Guardian Headquarters
Genetic Literacy Project
Genetic Literacy Project
Disclaimer

Statements posted on this blog represent the views of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Center for Law Science & Innovation (which does not take positions on policy issues) or of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law or Arizona State University.

Wednesday Web Watch for March 18, 2015

www3The world is in a state of chaos, writes CLSI Faculty Fellow, Braden Allenby, for Slate.  The speed at which technological innovation is progressing is causing destabilization in many areas (geographic, cultural, social, etc.).  The chaos stems from “the rejection of the modern, technologically sophisticated, complex, multicultural, and multipolar world.”  Fear, ignorance, exclusion, fanaticism and the instinct to survive leads to the retreat to, or sustenance of, medieval or fundamentalist views and beliefs, thereby fueling unacceptance, agitation and retaliation against “[a]ccelerating technological, social, and cultural change.”  We are seeing a relapse of the disease that lead to war just a century ago, for like the dissatisfaction and unrest brewing back then, similarly rooted in “[a] world sunk in adulation of a golden past that never was, and enthralled with the romance of anti-modernity” the fearful, the ousted, the anti-scientific, the zealots and the insecure are mistakenly, once again, discounting “the benefits of the world that actually is.”