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Sixty years ago, stereo promised to forever change the way people listened to music. But how could record companies convince customers to buy a new record player, speakers and amplifier?
Fertility apps aim to help women understand their bodies. But while some find tracking their data a positive experience, others may feel burdened or trapped.
The enthusiasm for business creation is not without negative consequences, especially for the many who fail. However, the “all entrepreneurs” discourse remains predominant.
Drones are low cost and easy to operate. They give quality, high resolution outputs, and can be deployed fast and often.
Americans are spending almost three and a half hours on their phones and tablets every day, twice the amount just five years ago. A behavioral scientist offers a few tips on how to take control.
With car manufacturers closing down factories, and self-driving technologies improving and becoming more widely accepted, have we reached Peak Car?
The ‘like’ button does far more than just express how much a person likes a particular picture or post. It could be used to make social comparisons.
Motorized scooters that can travel up to 15 miles per hour have soared in popularity over the past year, as have concerns about their safety.
Analysis of bones from over hundreds and thousands of years ago suggests that our skeleton today is more fragile than that of our ancestors.
Technology could be a promising alternative to traditional therapy.
As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.
Expecting algorithms to perform perfectly might be asking too much of ourselves.
With technology women are able to become agents of their own change.
While many jobs are being replaced by technology, those that participate in the making of (good) social experiences for people are bucking the trend.
Artificial intelligence poses opportunities as well as dangers; understanding them – and regulating carefully – will help avoid harm to individuals and society as a whole.
The additional precautions many women take when travelling alone help us manage our fears and feel more empowered to enter into public spaces.
Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been running wild in recent years, soaring and then plunging in value. A few stories from The Conversation’s archive offer a glimpse into their world.
Technology can transgress all kinds of legal frameworks.
A new Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition offers a set of reflections, calculations and speculations that engage with ideas about the perfect body, mathematical precision, quantum physics and a post-human world.
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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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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Director, Center for National Security Initiatives, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
