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The ethics of invention, technology and the human future, Sheila Jasanoff - hardcover

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"A professor of science and technology studies at Harvard Kennedy School candidly documents society's embrace of technological solutions and technology's complex interplay with ethics and human rights, challenging readers to build a future in which we work together to manage the risks and promises of technology, "--NoveList

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The power of technology -- Risk and responsibility -- The ethical anatomy of disasters -- Remaking nature -- Tinkering with humans -- Information's wild frontiers -- Whose knowledge, whose property? -- Reclaiming the future -- Invention for the people

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