Wednesday Web Watch for March 18, 2015
The 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 […]
Is Technology Completely Upending the Traditional Idea of the Self?
In his article, The End of the Self?, Braden Allenby, Faculty Fellow of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation, at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, makes a provocative argument regarding the inevitable evolution of the self alongside the emergence of new technologies. Allenby posits we are an information processing species and that […]
Publication Notice – Marchant et al.
Stagnancy: the price of longevity
In his colorful article on the perils of living a very long life, ASU Professor Brad Allenby challenges us to peer into a make-believe classroom where a stone-old professor stands before a pulpit, impeding progress and preaching obsoleteness. Allenby likens the situation to an aging captain left standing on a dock while those best equipped to handle the seas, the students, clamor to board a ship – all yearning […]