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 […]
Wednesday Web Watch for February 25, 2015
Michelle Francl, a chemistry professor, is tired of the Food Babe, Vani Hari, irresponsibly selling fiction for fact. But for Hari, fiction sells books, videos, appearances and increases her popularity — especially when her titles are so deliciously tied to disgusting things, like beaver butt. According to Francl, “[t]he Food Babe is a business, just […]
Wednesday Web Watch for October 29, 2014
Law lag. We hear about it all the time, as we continually move to resolve cutting-edge issues involving avant-garde technologies. The oft-discussed concern is whether we can effectively use laws applied to early 21st Century technologies to regulate novel, emerging systems. Are they horses of the same color? “No” says Ryan Calo,”[t]oday software can […]
I Love Your Genes!
The article, I Love Your Genes, co-authored by ASU Law Professor Gary Marchant was featured this week in Slate magazine. The piece looks at recent genetics-based relationship assessment and dating sites and discusses the science & relevance of the growing “spit, seal and mail” phenomenon. For once it doesn’t matter whether the ones you have […]
Life is Good (or at Least Better): Law School Class of 2018
Jordan Weissmann, Slate‘s senior business and economics correspondent, writes and throws out a bunch of numbers indicating that the law school class of 2018 is in a better position to land jobs (that parents can be proud of) than its 2013 counterpart. Things appear to be looking up as reduced law school solicitation and enrollment […]
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 […]
23andMeandtheFDA
With the FDA’s warning letter to 23andMe and follow-up articles taking news networks by storm, ASU law professor, Gary Marchant weighed in on the issue in an article for Slate entitled The FDA Could Set Personal Genetics Rights Back Decades. In his commentary, Marchant claims that the FDA’s directive to 23andMe to cease marketing its genetic tests “is a […]
UPDATE: Future Lifespans: Garreau’s Four Scenarios
A few posts ago, we introduced Joel Garreau‘s take on future lifespan possibilities presented at The Future of Longevity, an event held in Washington D.C. on October 4, 2013 and hosted by Future Tense (a partnership of Slate, New America Foundation and Arizona State University). Garreau’s presentation was covered by C-SPAN and is available for […]
Future Lifespans: Garreau’s Four Scenarios
In Drooling on Your Shoes or Living Long and Prospering? Joel Garreau posits four lifespan possibilities for the year 2030. These are, A) Small Change, a time when progress moves along without much of a lifespan change; B) Drooling on Their Shoes, when human lifespan, but not healthspan, is increased– leaving folks to live longer, […]