Three related features are introduced simultaneously: (1) increasing returns to scale for the costs of new technologies; (2) clusters of linked technologies that induce learning depending on their technological "proximity" in addition to the technology relations through the structure (and connections) of the energy system; and (3) uncertain costs of all technologies and energy sources.
But a previously secret memo reveals that the files had to be edited for references to military technology, relations with other countries and insulting remarks about the public written by defence officials and police.
It notes: "The majority of the files are of low security classification, but include references to air defence matters, defence technology, relations with foreign powers and occasional uncomplimentary comments by staff or police officers about members of the public, which will need to be withheld in accordance with FoI principles".
Ihde's phenomenological description of the human/technology relation provides a meaningful taxonomy or framework to give an account of many everyday technology relations in a manner that can facilitate our considerations of the social and ethical implications of information technology.
But this week in particularly was a watershed for U.S. and China technology relations, and a busy week for tech lobbyists and policy officials.
If philosophers direct their ethical analyses only to other philosophers, then such analyses may function simply as ethical postmortems of human-technology relations, with no opportunity to actually pre-empt, reform or redirect unethical technological practices.
"We'll be a leader in government relations, high technology, financial relations and entertainment," said Larry Weber, who had been chief executive at Weber Shandwick and will relinquish that post in the merger to Harris Diamond, chief executive at BSMG.
Shewell's team is now looking at mobile technology in relation to social media.
Somehow he also finds time to choreograph, and this week he presents "THE INVENTION OF MINUS ONE," an exploration of motion-capture technology in relation to the moving body.
And while a JISC study observed that current undergraduates were more engaged than ever, students did not always understand the role of digital technology in relation to their studies.
Interviewed in the 1992 essay Black to the Future in which Mark Dery coins the term Afrofuturism (a way of thinking about race as a technology in relation to culture, science and metaphysics), Tate is seen as a godfather of that school of black thought.
