Science & Technology
Some argue that an 'information revolution' has fundamentally
altered the way the world works, plays, and even thinks. But the
intersection of globalization and science and technology doesn't stop
there. Innovations like Global Positioning System (GPS)-equipped cars,
genetically modified (GM) foods, and water purification systems have
alternately delighted, frightened, or liberated people around the globe -
empowering some and rendering others helpless. Much of this scientific
and technological advance has been the result of international cooperation
on a scale previously unseen. The following articles have been assembled
to shed light on these and other related issues.
Christopher Rhoads and Loretta Chao
The Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2009
As information flows freely, so does the technology to control that information
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Guobin Yang
YaleGlobal, 23 June 2009
Despite many counter-measures and filters, digital democracy continues to trouble authoritarian regimes
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Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times, 23 June 2009
Chinese anti-censorship software is helping Iranians
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Jonathan Watts
The Guardian, 17 June 2009
The internet: sometimes a self-regulation organism
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Christopher Rhoads and Geoffrey A. Fowler and Chip Cummins
The Wall Street Journal, 17 June 2009
Tehran’s clever approach to internet control still cannot prevent Iranians from reaching the world
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Loretta Chao
The Wall Street Journal, 8 June 2009
While clean, China’s Green software is not about the environment
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Shawn Pogatchnik
Associated Press, 12 May 2009
The test for global credulity: if it’s on the internet is it true?
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Keith Bradsher
The New York Times, 12 May 2009
Cleaner coal power plants in China now cost less than the US
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Mark Mazzetti
The New York Times, 26 March 2009
Technology offers few easy answers
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Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov
Project Syndicate, 9 March 2009
Governments can manipulate the internet to limit free speech and dissent
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