Ethical Issues: Scientific & Technological Developments

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that cant be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current ...

Lochlann Jains debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between w...

Would you say your phone is safe, or your computer? What about your car? Or your bank?  There is a global war going on and the next target could b...

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyze cybercrime at the...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition.The best per...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition.The best per...

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In f...

FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2024 - Business: Technology Responsible AI is a guide to how business leaders can develop and implem...

FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2024 - Business: Technology Responsible AI is a guide to how business leaders can develop and implem...

This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space ...

Recent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources...

Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; h...

Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted th...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for...

Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood New StatesmanA tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world The TimesA moreish page-turner of a boo...

It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of permacrisis' accom...

It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of permacrisis' accom...

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitisation processes of Europes border regime. It shows how sociotechnical imaginations of fu...

How science can convey a profound sense of wonder, connectedness, and optimism about the human condition. This book makes a compelling case that n...

The tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As ...

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being   Eleg...

There is, in general, no doubt regarding the ethical and human behaviour aspects of the research work of any type. The researchers are thought of w...

'Eye-opening' New Statesman'Utterly brilliant' Helena Kennedy'Thought-provoking, challenging and very humane' Michael WooldridgeNo longer an uncert...

'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' Caitlin Moran'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' Bob Mortim...

Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global...

Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global...

The only treatment of ethics from a scientific and engineering perspective The pursuit of science and engineering requires freedom of thought and, ...

In Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusi...

This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing f...

In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the p...

Chapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work a...

Fracking is a novel but contested energy technology so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the rea...

This Eden is a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction.'An i...

*A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'**A TIMES 'BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021**A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'*LO...

The dream of control over human behaviour is an old dream, shared by many cultures. This fascinating account of the histories of human engineering ...

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remak...