Jul 19, 2024 | TAP-AP, Technologies, Technology assessment
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Jul 19, 2024 | Digitalization, TAP-AP, Technologies
Some of the world’s biggest corporations, including Bayer and ChemChina, are making deals with data giants such as Amazon and Alibaba to turn human behaviour and environmental knowledge into computer code. The ‘artificial intelligence’ they are creating by applying...
Jul 18, 2024 | Automation, TAP-AP, Technologies
As we face species’ extinction resulting from destruction of natural habitats, unabated expansion of industrial agriculture, wanton use of chemical pesticides, and pollution aggravated by climate change, industry actors are pushing for digital technologies, hailing...
Jul 18, 2024 | TAP-AP, Technologies, Technology assessment
We are living in a time where new technologies are often presented as near magical solutions to all sorts of challenges. Politicians and the media often obscure the political dimension to technologies, leading to confusion (Box 1). Box 1: What is meant by “tech”?...
Jul 18, 2024 | Synthetic biology, TAP-AP, Technologies
Molecular-level manipulations of every element that makes up the living world are being sold to us as “nature-based solutions” that can provide cures for almost all our problems. However, the hype that surrounds these sets of approaches is fatally undermined by the...
Oct 27, 2022 | Geoengineering, TAP-AP, Technologies
As the world faces the multiple challenges of climate, biodiversity and environmental crises, dangerous and unproven technological approaches are being proffered as quick fixes. Instead of supporting serious and often politically painful solutions,...
