6 Promising Trends and Technologies Improving Metal Fabrication
This article describes six promising trends and technologies that are improving the metal fabrication industry. Read more [...]
Tag Archives: Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic as research driving force
This article shows how COVID19 triggered changes in research culture and how science and technology helped to improve our quality of life. Read more [...]
Technological sovereignty: from the hype to the real questions
Peter Tindemans states that before unleashing technology sovereignty initiatives, the EU needs to define what the concept means. Read more [...]
5 Reasons Modern Manufacturing Needs Cybersecurity
As the industry becomes more data-driven, manufacturers have a new threat to consider: cybercrime. Here are five reasons why they need cybersecurity. Read more [...]
Why Are Smart Cities Growing in Popularity?
Hi-tech, interconnected urban areas are becoming so popular. Transitioning into smart cities may be the solution to urbanisation common growing problems. Read more [...]
Technoculture Podcast – Episode #8: Patrick Wheeler
Patrick Wheeler is an expert in cybersecurity and technology, with over twenty yeaers of experience in the field. In this interview he talks about people, crime, and the cyberspace. Read more [...]
Technoculture Podcast – Episode #5: Istvan Zoltan
Zoltan Istvan is a California-based best selling author, former reporter for several major media and the most prominent advocate for the transhumanist movement worldwide. Read more [...]
Smart Sensors Are a Game Changer for the Construction Industry
Bringing the IoT to the construction industry in the form of smart sensors greatly raises the bar for quality and efficiency. Read more [...]
Time for serious hacking solutions in scholarly publishing
Hacking solutions to science problems are springing up everywhere. But what about the publishing industry? Where are the TripAdvisors for journals submissions, the Deliveroo for laboratory reagents? Clearly there are so many opportunities technology could bring to radically change the lives of scientists that it is a bit difficult to know where to start. Yet, the debate on the future of scholarly publishing may be about changing the incentives for researchers rather than embracing smart technology solutions. Find out from the experts in the industry who gathered in Frankfurt a few weeks ago. Read more [...]
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Innovation has a role to play in chronic diseases prevention
Thanks to advances in technology, the ubiquitous smartphone is not just a way to connect with friends. It also becomes a kind of “doctor in our pocket”. Health apps, wearable sensors and fitness trackers are all contributing towards ‘more and better data’ for monitoring everything from caloric intake to steps taken on a daily basis. If we want to better understand, manage, and prevent chronic diseases, then new technologies and innovations like these are vital. Read more [...]
Privacy: an endangered species in a digital world
Surveillance and security technologies do not exist in a vacuum. This is why it matters to study societal impacts and compliance with fundamental rights and values of citizens. Find out the perspective of Johann Čas, an economist from the Institute of Technology Assessment, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Vienna. In an opinion piece, he talks about the findings of one of his latest projects, SurPRISE, which consulted 2,000 European citizens on their views of different security technologies and surveillance measures. This lead to interesting finding on what is acceptable to them in terms of security versus privacy trade-off. Read more [...]
Mariana Mazzucato: no innovation without State support
The State is not just a market-failure fixer, it has to be active in investing in innovation
Mariana Mazzucato is a professor of economics of innovation at SPRU in the University of Sussex, UK. She presents her research in an internationally known book Read more [...]
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