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Satveer

SimpliCITY - New PC to encourage old people - 0 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8352606.stm A new computer has been created for old people that may never have used a computer before allowing them to gain better access and reap the benefi...

divde age technology internet

started by Satveer on 12 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
joanne ye

Nanotechnology and Space - 2 views

nanotechnology outer space

started by joanne ye on 06 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
lee weiting

techno-immortality - 1 views

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3476/ immortality becoming real? this sounds so unbelievable and scary to me. techno immortality is changing our identity...we may be gradually losing our iden...

started by lee weiting on 04 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Meenatchi

Scientists use computer to 'read minds' on screen - 1 views

Article Summary: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6482189/Scientists-use-computer-to-read-minds-on-screen.html The article talks about the discovery on the ability to read ...

online ethics progress technology

started by Meenatchi on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Meenatchi

Nanotechnology: A risky frontier? - 1 views

http://www.startribune.com/business/67823902.html?page=4&c=y The article discusses about the advantages and risks involved in nanotechnology. The article also states that companies don't face an i...

online ethics nanotechnology rights

started by Meenatchi on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Jody Poh

Powering our way out of poverty - 3 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8046112.stm Only the first part of the article before "Cheap and Continuous" is relevant. Although the whole article is about saving the environment, it h...

social progress technology ethics justice

started by Jody Poh on 03 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
Magdaleine

Immortality only 20 years away says scientist - 9 views

wow interesting! like a start to the creation of super heroes!! it kind of sound like science is playing God here, determining and extending lives. it is already evident now in this society without...

nanotechnology rights divide

juliet huang

The tools to live forever ? - 1 views

According to a news story on nanotechnology, in the future, the wealthy will be able to make use of nanotechnology to modify parts of their existing or future genetic heritage, ie they can alter bo...

nanotechnology biotechnology

started by juliet huang on 28 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
qiyi liao

Beauty in Nano - 4 views

started by qiyi liao on 28 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
guanyou chen

Nanotechnology: the wonders and horrors! - 5 views

Nanotechnology God mind control

started by guanyou chen on 28 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
lee weiting

should we develop nanotechnology? - 1 views

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090610192431.htm This articles discuss about the possible health risk of nanotechnology. on one hand, the use of nanoparticles may be promising for di...

nanotechnology

started by lee weiting on 28 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Valerie Oon

Ethics discussion based on new movie, "Surrogates" - 8 views

This movie upset me. I don't think the director developed the premise and plot to the potential it could have reached. Quite a shallow interpretation. But it does raise some intrigue. I'm a bit stu...

technology future empowerment destruction

Low Yunying

Micro matter has mega impact. - 1 views

Nanotechnology ethics media

started by Low Yunying on 28 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
guanyou chen

How to Build A Dinosaur - 3 views

Dinosaurs ethics genetic engineering chicken

started by guanyou chen on 22 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Meenatchi

Abortion debate heats up in Peru - 0 views

ethics rights

started by Meenatchi on 22 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
kenneth yang

SD ballot measure would ease restrictions on stem cell research - 1 views

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A proposed ballot issue to ease restrictions on stem cell research will strike a chord with South Dakotans because nearly everyone has had a serious disease or knows someone who...

ethics rights stem cell

started by kenneth yang on 21 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Satveer

Why I hate stem-cell technologies & Regenerative Therapies - 5 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8314442.stm This article is another one of those regenerative therapies article that use of stem-cell technology to reverse aging because first world countries ar...

stem cell regenerative first world third

started by Satveer on 21 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Jun Jie Tan

Animal Cloning: Old MacDonald's Farm Is Not What It Used To Be - 6 views

http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pecorino.html Cloning leads to amazing possibilities such as ability to harvest organs from genetically-engineered pigs to save human lives, to pres...

biotechnology

started by Jun Jie Tan on 21 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
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