Sentence examples for consequences of new technology from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lanier's book, which makes an impassioned case for "a digital humanism," is only one of many recent volumes to take a hard but judicious look at some of the consequences of new technology and Web 2.0.

One of the world's leading authorities on the economic consequences of new technology, McAfee is also the co-author of the 2014 bestseller The Second Machine Age and the just published Machine, Platform, Crowd.

As technology progresses at an ever-accelerating pace, it has become more and more difficult for the general public to follow the developments and to assess potentially negative consequences of new technology.

Benedict Evans, a tech and media analyst at Enders Analysis, a London research firm, said that Mr. Eggers's descriptions capture two qualities typical of tech companies: unbridled optimism and the failure to understand real-world consequences of new technologies.

"There is no wall big enough to protect us from a changing climate or the unintended consequences of new technologies like artificial intelligence or DNA manipulation".

"There is a developing consensus around the world, including Silicon Valley, that the potential long-term consequences of new technologies need to be factored in at the outset," wrote Jana managing partner Barry Rosenstein and CalSTRS executive Anne Sheehan in the public letter.

Advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and nuclear energy have turned society into what Dutch ethicist Ibo van de Poel calls a large-scale laboratory for experimenting with the unforeseen consequences of new technologies.

In societies that take into account economic consequences of new technologies, decisions on the coverage and reimbursement are based not only on the cost-effectiveness (CE) data, which represent the economic efficiency of the technologies, but also on the total cost of adopting the technologies and the national healthcare budgets, which are used to assess the technology affordability [ 14].

Finally, there may be new rights – and hence, new revenue streams – as a consequence of new technologies, and we mustn't let them get appropriated.

It's impossible to grasp the consequences or outcomes of new technology, especially when that technology is developed by a twenty-something hacker.

Of course, we can never know a prior all of the unintended consequences of any new technology, but reducing their number could make the positive effects of new technology all the more beneficial and its negative effects more manageable and less destructive.