- SCOPE Science Controversies - http://scope.educ.washington.edu
Establishing online, intellectual communities of scientists, classroom teachers, and science learners focused on current controversies in science that concern scientists and also connect to the interests of the general public.
- The Impact Of Technology - http://www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm
How the second industrial revolution ( miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating and impoverishing our community.
- Fathom - http://www.fathom.com/index.html
Interactive knowledge organization, combining major world wide universities who manage this searchable database. Project is presently launching.
- Red Rock Eater News Service - http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
Mailing list and links to articles from UCLA professor Phil Agre about social and political aspects of computing and networking.
- The Loka Institute - http://www.loka.org/
Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
- Scientists For Global Responsibility - http://www.sgr.org.uk
Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical controversies, global energy and resource issues, alternative technologies, and global population and consumption.
- Whitleysworld - http://www.unknowncountry.com/
Homepage of author and radio host Whitley Strieber, covering alternative and mainstream science news and debates.
- Africa in a High-Technology Millennium - http://www.emeagwali.com/interviews/millennium/BBC-network-africa-questions-on-emerging-millennial-technology.html
British Broadcasting Corporation interviews Nigerian computer and Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, on what science and technology can do for Africa in the Information Age.
- Center for Technology Studies - http://www.pacificresearch.org/centers/cts/
Resources from the Pacific Research Institute supporting ways to promote opportunity, innovation, and economic growth by limiting government intervention in the electronic frontier.
- Technology Watch Centre - http://www.nsf.ac.lk/adbmost/twc/twc.htm
The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science & Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
- A Survey Of Technology In Cities - http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/urban/urb_age/fall98/techno.html
Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities.
- Government Technology - http://www.govtech.net/
News, publications, conferences, and case studies about using technology in state and local government.
- Potomac Institute - http://www.potomacinstitute.org/
A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society.
- Pragmatic and Dogmatic Physics; Presentation and Response in - http://www.geocities.com/pragmaticdogmatic/index.html
A report concerned with the analysis of one particular article that a German physicist published in Nature in 1938, the background of its publication and the response to it. The article had antisemitic aspects even as it was an article about scientific research.
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