Franken.senate.gov | Senator Al Franken questions Apple on privacy implications of new iPhone fingerprint technology.
It made sense that they were the first to understand the military implications of new information systems.
In Slate, Evgeny Morozov on the unsettling implications of new software that allows teachers to track students' reading habits on electronic textbooks.
But Congressional colleagues say he really was ahead of the curve in seeing the implications of new technologies, like computer networks and genetic testing.
Indeed, law enforcement officials are only beginning to wrestle with the implications of new technologies that will permit the anonymous, instant, global distribution of information of any kind.
Most writers on the implications of new technology focus too much on the technology and too little on society's role in shaping it.
Those are the implications of new research looking at the behavior of thousands of people reading online comments, scientists reported Friday in the journal Science.
IAN BURUMA and MARK DANNER will share the new Henry R. Luce chair at Bard College, a professorship in the implications of new media for democracy and human rights.
Dr. Poindexter has said publicly that he has begun discussions with the National Academy of Science to finance a long-range study of the privacy implications of new surveillance technologies.
Pros: better battery, more unified and smoother experience, more power user features, more control of apps and data, Now on Tap Cons: possible privacy implications of new Google search features, getting the update may be hard.
In your editorial (Babies designed by scientists could soon be possible. We need to talk about this, Professor, 10 April) you call for early examination of the ethical implications of new genome editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9.
