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biotechnology

Will the next pandemic be a bioweapon?

BIOWEAPONS: The combination of astonishing historical facts and compelling analyses of science policy makes medical professor Stig S. Frøland's book on biological warfare a compelling reading experience. For example, good death microbes should have high mortality, preferably be paralyzing, have a high infectiousness, be easy to produce and suitable for creating fear.
Anders Dunk -

Economic motives can ruin artificial intelligence

KI: What happens if we create something that is more intelligent than ourselves, a machine that might do something completely different than we want?
Henning Næs -

The coming technological decade

Will increased control or monitoring in this decade eventually leave more to algorithms that carry out actions themselves based on so-called "actionable intelligence"?
Truls Lie -

Study, understand and use nature

Broadly oriented science journalist Amina Khan shows how nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology.
Andrew P. Kroglund -

Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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