If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be.
When collaborating across distances, situation awareness is mediated by technology.
Telecommuting is about professional relationships and how they change when they are mediated by technology.
In the present study the behavior was mediated by technology, which removes the suspect and young person from immediate contact with each other, and outside the existence of any relationship.
"Everything we do is being mediated by technology, whether it is entertainment, work or sports or play, and this is generating huge amounts of user activity data," says Rajat Paharia, the founding father of gamification.
"…I don't know about you, but I kinda figure that making sense of human relationships, or showing the ways in which romance is mediated by technology, is a whole fucking lot more relevant to my life than shooting space marines, you know?" Screen shot from Analogue: A Hate Story.
The negative externalities accompanying changes on, under, and over our roads, can be mediated by the same technologies that have sparked new headaches.
But though I, like Djerassi, feel that the future of reproduction will undoubtedly be mediated by the best that technology will have to offer, I am also convinced that there are social changes to the testosterone-fuelled structures of our institutions that must also play an important part, so that women will no longer, four decades from now, still be drawing the short straw.
For functional studies, a large toolbox exists in zebrafish and medaka: downregulation of gene expression during early development can be achieved by morpholinos, and gene knockout can be mediated by sophisticated genome-editing technologies such as zinc finger nucleases and TALENs.
