Technology offers great perils or great promises

Reference no: EM13309257

As technology becomes more sophisticated, how can citizens and political leaders judge and understand whether a given technology offers great perils or great promises? When great technological projects, such as venturing farther into the galaxy or developing new life-extending medicines, are proposed, how should government officials make decisions about how tax dollars should be spent?

Reference no: EM13309257

Questions Cloud

Determine flow rate of water from nozzle through pipe : 4 in diameter pipeline 200ft long discharges water from nozzle with 2 in diameter jet at an elevation which is 100ft below the water level of supply reservoir. find flow rate through pipe

Determination of chance probability and respective payoffs : How to create graphs like this is a good skill to have when making presentations to groups and decide which option is the best using probability analysis, the decision tree model, and expected monetary value.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the lecture : What are the strengths and weaknesses of the lecture, the case study, and behavior modeling? When would it be appropriate to use each of these?

Explain what volume of carbone dioxide measured at stp : what volume of carbone dioxide ,measured at STP,would result from the reaction of 9.786 kg of oxygen with excess pentane

Technology offers great perils or great promises : As technology becomes more sophisticated, how can citizens and political leaders judge and understand whether a given technology offers great perils or great promises? When great technological projects, such as venturing farther into the galaxy or de..

Calculate the height of the airplane above sea level : The pressure gage on an airplane flying overhead indicates that the atmospheric pressure at that point is 9.7 psia and that the air temperature is 42 deg. Fahrenheit. Assume a linear decrease of temperature with elevation

Determined the mass of the spider : A spider hangs from a strand of silk whose radius is 4.0*10^-6m. Thedensity of the silk is 1300kg/m^3. determined the mass of the spider

Explain what would be the composition of the distillation : What temperature would be observed during the entire distillation. B) If a thermometer were immersed below the surface of the liquid of the boiling flask, what temperature would be observed. C) What would be the composition of the distillation.

The conservation of energy states : The conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, merely transformed from one form into another. What is the “ultimate” implication of this? And do you think it is really true? Can it be tested?

User Account

All Pages