The first point concerns the fact that, upon closer examination, no technology can fully renounce its dependence on energy.
The so-called Terminator technology, which firms renounced after being accused of engineering it in order to stifle poor farmers' ability to replant seed from an existing crop, still haunts the debate.Few of the GM plants now being sold by big biotech companies will make much difference to poor farmers.
The fast growth of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) implies a deployment challenge, namely how to keep this technology scalable without renouncing security and privacy features.
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, refused to renounce exports of missiles and missile technology, the European Union's top security official said today.
Confronted with the growing prospect of nuclear proliferation, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched in 1953 his Atoms for Peace program, which eventually provided nonmilitary nuclear technology to countries that renounced nuclear weapons.
"That includes the ability to have a breakout," he said, using the term nuclear specialists apply to a country that suddenly renounces the nonproliferation treaty and uses its technology to build a small arsenal.
Ukraine and Kazakhstan, both of which had nuclear weapons or related materials and technology on their territory during Soviet times, have renounced weapons of mass destruction.
Under American and international law, such technology can be given only to countries that have renounced nuclear weapons and joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
They also ask me to stay on social media to speak out about the technology issue, but I say I'm denouncing complex technology simply by renouncing it.
Pandora's Promise (Director: Robert Stone) — A growing number of environmentalists are renouncing decades of antinuclear orthodoxy and have come to believe that the most feared and controversial technology known to mankind is probably our greatest hope.
