Parliaments and Technology

Parliaments and TechnologyThe first comparative analysis of the development and practice of technology assessment in different national settings. Parliaments and Technology explores an issue critically important to the practice of democracy everywhere: How do citizens and elected officials assess the opportunities and costs of new technologies that may profoundly impact their societies' future? For example, what are the social and moral implications of gene patents,

the aim and scope of this book is to clearly illustrate ideas on diverse ongoing cutting-edge advancements in the field biotechnology and current scenario across a wide subject spectrum

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it explores his eclectic aesthetic range as well as his unerring concern for the human condition: a lasting ‘vision’ from hopeful socialists in the 1950s–60s

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The richly illustrated accompanying book gives a vivid overview of Etruscan culture and presents remarkable objects from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities

which can only be overcome by decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption and focusing on a new approach to efficiency

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Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities and their significance to the study of media