JONATHAN HANKINS
Author, Speaker
An Interview with Chris Howard, CEO of Libboo
Chris Howard is CEO and co owner of Libboo, a high profile online publishing venture based in Cambridge Massachusetts. In this interview carried out in January 2013, Jonathan Hankins poses questions of responsibility and ethics surrounding the company’s use and patenting requests for an innovative method of measuring how certain individuals may be able to ... An Interview with Chris Howard, CEO of Libboo
2013 14mn
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Nuffield Council on Bioethics Biotechnologies Report
In December of last year the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report entitled Emerging Biotechnologies: technology, choice and the public good. In this post Jonathan Hankins reviews the report and its findings and recommendations. According to the guide that accompanies the report, it ‘is intended to stimulate thinking in a variety of contexts in ... Nuffield Council on Bioethics Biotechnologies Report
2013 8mn
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Technology Bloggers Community Awards 2012
The 2012 Technology Bloggers Community Awards have just been announced and Bassetti Foundation Foreign Corespondent Jonathan Hankins has taken one award and came runner up in two more. Hankins writes a weekly contribution to the community blog raising awareness about issues surrounding responsibility in technological and scientific innovation, and this is the second year in ... Technology Bloggers Community Awards 2012
2013 2mn
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Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch – 5/6
Event: Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch. Date: 2012 11 27 Time: 18 min. Place: Università Bocconi, Milano. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/56335495 Report: Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Slides: in Slideshare. Milan, November 27, 2012 Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch with: Michael Bruch, Allianz SpA Piero Bassetti, ... Risk and Responsibility in Innovation. Lecture by Michael Bruch – 5/6
2012 1mn
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Commercial Drone Management and Regulation
Two years ago I wrote an article about the use of drones and other robot devices in warfare. Times have moved on however, and now drones are much smaller and cheaper, and this has lead to suggestions that their use on mass will present privacy issues for the general public. The market for Unmanned Aircraft ... Commercial Drone Management and Regulation
2012 3mn
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Battle for the Internet
Earlier this year the Guardian newspaper ran an interesting series entitled ‘Battle for the Internet’. The series is available online and makes a very interesting read. Over 7 days the series looked at many aspects of internet growth and its effect upon society. Many of the problems addressed have been raised on this website over ... Battle for the Internet
2012 2mn
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How Automation is Changing the Economy, a Debate.
On Thursday September 27th I attended an event hosted by Kara miller of the local TV and radio station WGBH (Western Great Blue Hill) here in Boston. Miller hosts a Radio show that I follow regularly called Innovation Hub, and the event was a live discussion forum entitled “The New Economy: How Automation is Changing ... How Automation is Changing the Economy, a Debate.
2012 4mn
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Smart Cities course
Harvard Graduate school of Design offers a course entitled Smart Cities: An introduction to urban Integrated Networked Solutions and may well be one of the leading exponents of responsible innovation through design. The course is taught by Nashid Nabian, and has produced some extremely interesting uses for technology. As the name suggests the focus is ... Smart Cities course
2012 2mn
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Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource Center
One of the issues has been repeatedly raised at the Bassetti Foundation is that of finding and communicating reliable scientific information. Journalists are often non-specialized and lack scientific training, and the reprinting of press releases that may not be unbiased is common. Here at the University of Harvard staff have created a Journalist’s Resource Center, ... Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource Center
2012 3mn
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Entrepreneurship and Technical Change, a Book Review
At the Bassetti Foundation we believe that responsibility in innovation must lie in the process, and therefore with the entrepreneur. From this point of view the 2011 publication entitled Entrepreneurship and Technological Change (published by Edward Elgar) offers insight and analysis into the influence of entrepreneurship upon technical change and innovation. The book is divided ... Entrepreneurship and Technical Change, a Book Review
2012 3mn
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Super seeing, US Military Eye Enhancement
Last week the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published an article that touched upon a topic that readers of the Foundation website will be familiar with and may be interested in. The article is in Italian and can be found here, but I would like to describe it briefly for our English language readership. The ... Super seeing, US Military Eye Enhancement
2012 2mn
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Some Responsible Design Projects
In this post I would like to point readers towards some interesting design projects that I have come across during my online research and my travels around the US and Europe. The Massachusetts General Hospital has a newly opened museum, and on display is an incubator made from car parts. One of the most serious ... Some Responsible Design Projects
2012 4mn
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