LSI Faculty Fellow Larson in Slate
Center for Law, Science & Innovation Faculty Fellow, Rhett Larson, published an article in Slate Magazine that considers the appropriate legal regime for the water recently found on Mars. Read the article here.
Technology Triple Trivia
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. September 22, 2015 1. What recent appeal to recognize people’s right to, and wrongful censorship of, information was tossed out the window? Hint: Answer: the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) rejected Google’s informal appeal of a notice requiring the internet giant to comply with name-search delisting […]
Technology Triple Trivia
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers August 25, 2015 1. What is missing from this picture? Hint: Answer: regulations are all over the United States map when it comes to drones. Some states have them, some states don’t and where they do have them, they appear either too stringent, inadequate or lacking foresight. Then there’s […]
Technology Triple Trivia
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. July 28, 2015 1. What do urine and a basketball have in common? Hint: Answer: both bounce. San Francisco, in an attempt to control its Peeing Tom problem, is putting a special coat of UV-coated, urine-repellent paint on some of its city walls. If urine hits the wall, it […]
April 2015 Starbucks Challenge
Each month we feature a technology with potential legal implications and ask: What’s YOUR answer? One $25 Starbucks gift card card awarded per challenge based on what we feel is the most judicious response to the highlighted technology, below. Deadline to be eligible for this month’s Starbucks gift card is May 10, 2015. “Is […]
Tuesday Triple Trivia for March 31, 2015
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. Every Tuesday. 1. With last week’s Germanwings disaster, aviation-related safety technology has been highlighted in the news, including this invention: Hint: Answer: the difference between current airplane wings and birds’ wings? Birds’ wings are the only ones that bend. This may change, however, with the application of a 3D-designed […]
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 […]
A Nobel Laureate Speaks – AI: the great possibilities and the great dangers
“We are They. They are Us” – Frank Wilczek An interesting comment (embedded in the above photograph), made at some point in time, by prominent theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize Winner (Physics), Frank Wilczek, who, speaking to a meeting of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law‘s Center for Law, Science & Innovation study group […]
Wednesday Web Watch for January 18, 2015
Ted Parson, writing for Legal Planet, highlights two reports prepared by the National Research Council Committee on Geoengineering Climate, “Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration” and “Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth.” Parson applauds the Committee’s efforts but claims the important questions relating to “the looming, slow-motion, steadily-getting-worse threat of climate change” […]
Is Human Employment Doomed?
Listen as four of the nation’s experts, including Gary Marchant,* weigh in on technological unemployment. For more details, including panelists’ biographies, see http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurist…. For other London Futurists Hangouts On Air, see http://londonfuturists.com/hangouts-o…. * Faculty Director, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.