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While students enjoy learning with robots, research finds that teachers are more sceptical – worrying about their job security and technical capabilities of robots.
We need to educate children about how to behave responsibly online.
E-book sales are falling, even though many said they would “kill” print books. Computers and television were also supposed to spell the book’s demise. At one point, people even feared the phonograph.
Design will make the difference between smart city projects offering great promise or actually reinforcing or even widening the existing gaps in unequal ways their cities serve residents.
Having begun as a military answer to a Cold War threat (the Sputnik), the ARPANET turned into a completely different kind of network.
Opinion in the medical establishment is sure to be divided as to whether AI helpers are a good thing or just a flashy toy.
Apparently, the world is holding its breath on the unloading of a few bales of cotton, which “could change trade forever”. In Qingdao sometime in early November, 88 bales of cotton will be unloaded and…
The dark web is often used for illegal activity and because of the way it’s structured, it’s hard to police.
Angst when you forget your smartphone is not only a real psychological phenomenon–it also highlights a quintessentially postmodern problem: what the author calls the “anxiety of the disconnected”.
The closure of the car manufacturing plants in Australia is a sad loss of knowledge and jobs that will be difficult to replace.
There’s a disturbing history of solar flares taking out the technology we depend on. As tech becomes more and more vital, knowing what is happening in space is growing ever more crucial.
Laying the first telegraphy cable under the Atlantic was the Victorians’ version of the Apollo mission – it caught the imagination of a generation.
A new player is shaking up the Indian mobile market. But will it be enough?
Our citizen science project was designed to record bird sounds but produced some surprisingly funny impressions.
Business Briefing: we’re overusing and underestimating ‘disruption’
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Disruption might be a buzz word at the moment but it shouldn't be ignored. It may be impossible to predict but businesses can have stakes in creating it.
Two criminologists wanted to learn the tricks of the trade so they went to the source, interviewing over 70 pimps.
Many of HG Wells’s futuristic prophecies have come true, but the one on which his heart was most set – the establishment of a world state – remains unfulfilled.
Humans have invented many technologies to survive better – spears, pots, calculators, even language. With language, however, the raw material used to fashion the technology is the human body itself.
There is no doubt that virtual reality is the next big thing. But for families with young children, it may be wiser to wait a little before leaping headlong into this new reality.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Director, Center for National Security Initiatives, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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