Scott Berkun on Responsibility and Resistance
Scott Berkun is the author of The Myths of Innovation, which examines common pre- and mis-conceptions about innovation, and Making Things Happen, a book about project management. In this wide ranging discussion, Berkun offers some useful definitions of innovation, discusses resistance to innovation, and outlines some ideas on corporate responsibility (and irresponsibility). - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on April 14, 2009 12:00 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
See also: New science and new politics by Piero Bassetti
On the Media and Innovation: an Interview with Scott Kirsner
As an observer of innovation across the domains life sciences, clean technology, and media, Kirsner has explored the attraction to and fear of innovation present in many large institutions, and uncovered numerous examples of innovation that reveal aspects of innovators' responsibilities, as well as the deep ambivalence many companies have about innovation. - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on December 2, 2008 5:56 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Categories: Interview
Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 3)
(...continues from the previous entry) Ubois: Do you see -- I mean, another direction I could see this going is in the ways the lines between warfare and law enforcement get blurrier and blurrier. Arkin: Yeah, but that's why I'm... - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on January 18, 2008 9:48 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Categories: Interview, Roboethics
Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 2)
(...continues from the previous entry) Ubois: It's an interesting question of when should you essentially exit a field or exit certain social or power structures, because you can't abide by things any longer. Sort of the Norbert Weiner solution. Or... - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on January 15, 2008 9:44 AM. Permalink
Categories: Interview, Roboethics
Dr. Ronald Arkin on Roboethics and Responsibility (part 1)
Dr. Ronald Arkin is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory. In this discussion, he outlines the ethical aspects of robotics, especially those used in war; embedding... - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on January 12, 2008 12:55 PM. Permalink
Categories: Interview, Roboethics
Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 3)
The third part of the Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale: he offers insights into IRBs, participatory design, managing design tradeoffs, ethics and empowerment. - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on October 26, 2007 5:25 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
See also: Participatory design (part 1)
Categories: Interview, Software development
Transparency, Privacy, and Responsibility: An Interview with Jeff Jonas
More directly and obviously than many forms of innovation, software embodies the values of those who create it. This is particularly true of software used to monitor and direct human activity: in the extreme, it can be a tool that saves lives, or one that enables political repression. Software development therefore provides many examples of responsibility in innovation. As a leading innovator in the field of data analysis, Jeff Jonas has thought deeply about the social and political implications related to technological advances in surveillance, the loss of privacy, and the use of computerized monitoring systems by governments and corporations. - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on June 5, 2007 10:06 AM. Permalink
Categories: Interview, Software development
Responsibility in Innovation: A Survey of Coming Attractions in Nanotechnology
A Conversation with Lawrence Gasman Lawrence Gasman is the cofounder of NanoMarkets, LLC and author of the recent book, Nanotechnology Applications and Markets, which examines the market for nanotechnology in the healthcare, energy, and information technology sectors, and provides a generalized approach to forecasting the impact of nanotechnology on particular companies and industries. In this interview, Gasman emphasizes several likely near term discontinuities based on nanotechnology. And he offers some insight into possible social effects, and the limits of regulation. And yet without an ability to forecast developments, what kind of responsibility is possible? - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on March 22, 2007 12:08 AM. Permalink
See also: Nanotechnology
Categories: Interview, Nanotechnology
Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute
If you really want to know how create a sense of responsibility, look at the software development community. Talk about political activism...They see their work as political. They see it as ethics-based. - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on February 21, 2007 3:31 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
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Genetic Testing and its Implications: an interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan
In this discussion, Dr. Arthur Caplan discusses the implications of genetic screening, pre-natal testing, pre-natal gender selection, reproductive freedom, political education, and neurological enhancement, all within the context of responsibility in innovation, and with a nod to how effects may differ in different cultures around the world. - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on November 25, 2006 11:04 AM. Permalink
An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela
Ignacio Chapela is an assistant professor at University of California Berkeley, who, with colleague David Quist, discovered that illegally grown, genetically modified corn contaminated traditional heirloom corn in Oaxaca, Mexico. That discovery touched off a major controversy, and illuminates many... - More
Posted by Jeff Ubois on November 17, 2006 6:14 PM. Permalink
Categories: Biotechnology, Interview
