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Maeda has designed and consulted for corporations including Sony, Chanel and Cartier and frequently exhibits his own work that usually explores the role of technology in society around the world.
Specialists in technology law at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society in the Netherlands are drawing up a taxonomy of robotic devices and matching them against existing legal terminology to identify potential legal problems relating to the definitions of human autonomy, disability, normalcy and equality.
Lord Rees raises concerns about the social fragility and lack of resilience in our technology-dependent society.
Everyone know that rapid changes in society, technology, institutions, and business models are constantly occurring.
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Rob Shelton, Lead for Innovation from PwC, kicked off the event with an encouraging speech on the fundamental need for technology to drive improvements in our society.
Together with the San Jose Department of Transportation, the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS), and two start-up apps, Waze and Roadify, they discovered technology is integral to the future of commuting.
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Jon Collins, research director at UK consultancy Inter Orbis, which specializes in the impact technology is having on society and business, said this was a model that was already working very well in web development.
Natalie Gross, chief executive officer at global marketing and technology company, Amaze, points out that anyone in business today needs to have a deep-rooted understanding of technology "both in terms of the impact technology has had and will continue to have on society, and how it can be used in a specific business context".
Although there was no single cause for this European Spring, a variety of radical changes in society, from technology to food shortages to the beginnings of the rise of a middle class, seemed to coalesce into widespread revolt and dissatisfaction with ruling governments.
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Similarly, the Arab Spring seems to have been triggered by another series of radical changes in society, from technology and iPhones to food shortages to the beginnings of the rise of a middle class in these societies, that have coalesced into widespread revolt and dissatisfaction with ruling governments.
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Her interest is in the ways in which ideas of the soul are shaped by the technology and circumstances of a society, and how these ideas in turn shape the way people see themselves.
In today's information technology society, smartphone customers expect a high level of security and protection.
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The authors trust too much in technology's capacity to reinvent society.
Perhaps the two most dynamic industries in our society are healthcare and technology.
Giacomo Alberione (1884-1971) was an Italian priest and best-selling author who believed in preaching via modern technology and founded the Society of St Paul to this end.
This kind of assault would, in effect, reduce our technology-based society to pre-industrial modes of communication and subsistence and leave hundreds of millions without food, money, or transportation.
Emma Smith founded the Wired Woman Society in 1996 and co-authored Technology With Curves in 2000.
We could explore further back in time and find similar technology-imposed effects on society.
Among economic historians there is a growing consensus that guilds in Europe lost their ability to block new technology once society realised that innovation had a beneficial effect on humanity, and was thus not a zero-sum game.
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Politics plays a role in every aspect of our society unfortunately, including technology and the internet.
Aside from those brief interludes, Brand Thinking is a powerful look at the role brand plays in society, politics, economics, psychology and technology.
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Right now in Africa we spend time with groups in civil society, with groups who are using technology to inform themselves better on what governments are doing and holding them to account.
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Not surprisingly, the report, just published in the prestigious American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology, has put the cat among the pigeons, since there are many new companies gearing-up to produce algal biofuels.
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Saudi Arabia aims to become a regional leader in an information society and the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
Foodlab at the Society for Arts and Technology, near the St Laurent metro station in the Latin Quarter, is a casual restaurant with creative, budding chefs and a menu that varies depending upon the week's theme of experimental recipes.
Television technology was gee-whiz in its early days, and it, too, changed society.
Speaker at the recent i7 Summit in Chantilly, Paris, a Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society , Kyung H.
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"The truly disconnected corners of the globe are shrinking, and shrinking rapidly, " says Ethan Zuckerman, who studies technology use in the developing world as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Richard Florida, a researcher who studies society and technology, has documented that tech meccas tend to be co-located in areas with thriving creative cultures.
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