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Tag Archives: Blog
Public meeting – ‘Technology out of control? Drones, killer robots and the arms trade’ – July 2013 – report
The first BTF meeting was a resounding success with a very lively discussion and a general appreciation of Fairly Square’s food and drink! Ann Marie O’Reilly of Campaign Against the Arms Trade gave an introduction to general issues related to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms trade, Blog, Events, GCHQ, Killer robots, London, Military technology, NSA, Robotics, Social control, Surveillance, Technology
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Databases and data-mining: a favoured method for security and law enforcement agencies
Databases and data-mining: a favoured method for security and law enforcement agencies Chris Jones Statewatch Image from The Guardian The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden on the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Don't Spy On Us, GCHQ, Key blog posts, NSA, Snooper's charter, Snowden, Social control, Stop Watching Us, Surveillance, Technocracy, Technology
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Technocracy, gender and reproductive technology
David King It is often assumed that the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, liberalism and progress through science are aligned with the liberation of women. Reproductive technologies, as part of medicine are also assumed to be an unalloyed benefit for women, … Continue reading
Gender and Technology
Cynthia Cockburn At the first two events in this series you’ve been looking at technology in relation to militarism, nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Tonight I’m inviting us to focus more on technology in relation to capital, capitalists, companies, what … Continue reading
The Problems of Nuclear Technology
Peter Lux As well as the well-known problem of radioactivity there are a number of things that make nuclear power dangerous. Decay Heat Nuclear energy comes from the splitting of atoms – nuclear fission. The problem is that the two … Continue reading
GM and Gender
WEN at Gender and the Politics of Technology The relationship between GM and gender is a really complex one – the GM debate in itself is huge and there will be a whole BTF session devoted to that very topic … Continue reading
Nuclear Madness
David King Last Monday’s meeting on nuclear power has got me thinking about the whole phenomenon of nuclear power and how it ever got to the size that it is. To me, it’s really a puzzle, because it’s so completely … Continue reading
Some thoughts on nuclear power
By A Drop in the Ocean Despite astronomical cost and no solution for the back end, the UK seems to be falling for nuclear power. Have we had a chance to fully evaluate its pros and cons, especially, the risks? Fukushima has … Continue reading
Killer robots: weapons out of human control?
Richard Moyes, Article 36 These issues will be discussed at our first cafe discussion event on July 8th, see also http://www.luddites200.org.uk/Drones.html The Luddite uprisings two hundred years ago highlighted the social and economic impacts of changing technologies of production, and the capacity … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms trade, Article 36, Blog, Key blog posts, Killer robots, Military technology, Robotics, Technology
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