Impact of Science & Technology on Society

In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just...

The age of information, media and virtuality is transforming many aspects of human experience. This is an investigation of the postmodern world whi...

Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all cor...

A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individu...

Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machin...

What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the 20th century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific p...

What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the 20th century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific p...

Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machin...

Since the early 1980s, the US economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of availab...

Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discer...

This study engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. It reveals how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of appa...

How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has ...

Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with...