A central premise of the Institute of Medicine report on emerging infections was that the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases are a consequence of dynamic processes and factors: societal events; health care; food production; human behavior; environmental changes; public health infrastructure; and microbial adaptation (1, 2 ).
Will Oremus is the lead blogger for Slate's Future Tense, reporting on emerging technologies, tech policy and digital culture.
Andreas Pfeiffer, a consultant and editor of an industry newsletter, The Pfeiffer Report on Emerging Trends and Technologies, affirmed Microsoft's challenge.
We need a much richer and more critical debate about both, along the lines perhaps of the latest Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on emerging biotechnologies (http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/emerging-biotechnologies), for which l was a member of the working party.
"There were a number of small cities and towns across the country that were inspired by the technology boom that we had from 1996 through 1999," said Ross C. DeVol, director of regional and demographic studies at the Milken Institute, an economic research group in Santa Monica, Calif., which studied Kingston for a report on emerging high-tech centers.
Whatever the views or the issues, then, I think we'd all have a much more healthy and reasonable debate if more attention was given to the ways in which power can shape and constrain the way we think and talk about new technologies (see the recent Nuffield report on emerging biotechnologies for more).
To illustrate how bad the state-of-the-art is, it is worth mentioning a Special Report on Emerging Markets contained in the July 21 , 2001Economist.
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Thus begins the Institute of Medicine's 1992 Report on Emerging Infections.
