LSI Movie Corner: Blade Runner
Blade Runner: Great Then, Great Now 1982, directed by Ridley Scott Review by LSI Faculty Fellow, Brad Allenby Even successful movies revel in their time, and then pass, dated and limping, into artistic somnolence and decrepitude, and so to their unlamented and unmourned end. Only a very few movies, such as Casa Blanca or Citizen […]
Jurors, Genomics and Tort Litigation Webinar
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Registration is Open! Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference – 2017
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Key LSI Topic: Tech Unemployment
LSI Faculty Fellow, Yvonne Stevens recently published an article titled Legal Strategies for Technological Unemployment for the ABA’s The SciTech Lawyer. Stevens and LSI Faculty Director, Gary Marchant also co-authored a chapter in the newly released book, Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work. The book, “examines the current state […]
Worldwide Web Watch
On the lighter side of things today, how about an article titled AI engineer builds and marries his robot wife? The wedding ceremony was, apparently, informal. First, however, the wife will have to learn how to walk (what were the engineer’s priorities?). Then she is scheduled to learn how to do “some household chores.”
IoT National Institute – ABA Section of Science & Technology Law
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Allenby’s Movie Review: Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell Redivivus A movie review by LSI Faculty Fellow, Brad Allenby The most important thing to accept up front about the Ghost in the Shell movie is that it is not the same as the anime original. The original took the relationship between humans and emerging technologies as a serious and interesting […]
Bowman, Sylvester & Marino Publish Chapter on Nanotech
LSI Faculty Fellow, Diana Bowman, LSI Faculty Fellow and Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Douglas Sylvester, along with JD Candidate, 2017, Anthony Marino, published a chapter on Patents and Nanotechnology in Biomedical Nanotechnology, Methods & Protocols.
Bowman on Nano Regulation & Governance
Diana Bowman LSI Faculty Fellow, Diana Bowman, recently published a thoughtful article on nanotechnologies utilizing the eight specific nano regulation and governance recommendations of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, published over ten years ago, as a springboard from then to now. Below is an abstract: “It is now more than a […]
LSI at the Cutting Edge of Silicon Valley’s Quest
If a scorched cactus can live to 300, why not a human being? (Yvonne Stevens) On May 5, 2017, LSI will host its second healthy lifespan extension workshop. Whatever one chooses to call it, age delay, anti-aging or life extension, the idea is the same: those supporting it wish to curb the inevitability of aging […]