Technology 
2008

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2008

• Political Will, Political Won't - Paul Chefurka / Speaking Truth to Power 3sep2008
• Intel's Wireless Electricity System Could Eliminate Need for Cords - Agence France Presse 21aug2008
• Invisibility Cloak Moves From Fantasy to Potential Reality - Daily Californian 19aug2008
• The Case for Precaution in the Use of Cell Phones: Advice from University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Based on Advice from an International Expert Panel - University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (undated) 23jul2008
• Oligarch Buys £200 Million Super-Yacht, Then Sails Off to Collect Monet Paintings - The Telegraph (UK) 16jul2008
• Newton, Einstein Lost in Space? Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 - Wall Street Journal 16may2008
• Spy Cells: Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are - Wall Street Journal 28mar2008
• Growing Number of Companies Use Scanners to Track Employees - AP 26mar2008
• Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America - Global Research 25mar2008
• Bum Bot Robot Reports for Security Duty in Atlanta: Bar owner Rufus Terrill built it - Los Angeles Times 23mar2008
• A Short Critique of the Stern Review - Real-World Economics Review 15mar08
• NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data - Wall Street Journal 10mar2008
• PlayStation 2 Component Incites African War: Console War Reaches Past Couch into Congo: Inside Africa’s PlayStation War - Toward Freedom 8jul2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008
• Real ID Act a Real Intrusion on Rights, Privacy - Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6feb2008
• Internet Failure Hits Two Continents: Asia, Middle East and North Africa Crippled: Businesses Struggling to Cope - CNN 31jan2008
• Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit - AP 26jan2008
• Entire Synthetic Genome Created: DNA of the smallest known free-living bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium, stitched together - National Geographic News 25jan2008
• Collapse: WalMart and Waiting for the Shoe to Drop - Culture Change 20jan2008
• World's Most Powerful Microscope Arrives at Berkeley Lab: $27 Million for Half of an Angstrom - San Jose Mercury News 13jan2008
• Military Use of Unmanned Aircraft Soars - AP 1jan2008

A Children's Story by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) - This story offers insight into how we got to where we are in terms of politics and science. It can serve as an explanation, and possibly a justification, to  most outstanding technologies such as plastics, pesticides, genetic engineering, and cancer research.

 

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