Technoscience and life sciences
Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
March of 2025 saw the release of Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges, authored by Andrea Lavazza, Michela Balconi, Marcello Ienca, Francesca Minerva, Federico Gustavo Pizzetti, Massimo Reichlin, Francesco Samorè, Vittorio A. Sironi, Marta Sosa Navarro and Sarah Songhorian. The article appears in the open access publication Frontiers in Human Dynamics, and is part of a series of 10 articles that appear in a collection ... Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
2025 3min
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Studying with AI. A student’s testimony
Some thoughts from Angelo Hankins, Bassetti Foundation collaborator and first year student in Global Sustainability Sciences at Utrecht University While the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many facets of modern society, I find its impact on education—particularly on students— uniquely profound. As a high school student during the early stages of AI ... Studying with AI. A student’s testimony
2025 5min
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Looking Back on 2024
IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work of the Bassetti Foundation (which she co-founded with her brother Piero Bassetti) is both a reflection and result of her dedication, and we endeavor to ... Looking Back on 2024
2025 5min
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Opportunities in digital transformation, organizing and STS at the IT University of Copenhagen
IT University of Copenhagen invite applicants who can contribute to strengthening the IT University’s research and teaching in how digital technologies affect organising and organisational transformations, for instance how AI or new data management practices engender changes in public institutions, NGOs or private companies. The candidates need to have a background in qualitative humanities or social ... Opportunities in digital transformation, organizing and STS at the IT University of Copenhagen
2025 1min
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Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University
On Thursday 5th and Monday 9th of December (2024), Bassetti Foundation correspondent Jonathan Hankins brought discussion about responsible innovation and sociotechnical imaginaries to Leiden University Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, as part of its Social Theories undergraduate course. Here his report: In December of 2024 I was given the opportunity to discuss responsible ... Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University
2024 4min
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Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht
The Bassetti Foundation recently continued its long-term collaboration with the International School Utrecht as on 23 October Jonathan Hankins delivered a Performance Lecture about sociotechnical imaginaries during a Diploma Years TOK (theory of Knowledge) lesson. The Foundation and the school have been collaborating since 2018, when topics under discussion were ‘the driverless society’ and developments ... Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht
2024 2min
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The more the metaverse advances, the more our human side emerges
Dialogue with Marco Centorrino and Josephine Condemi What if the arrival of the metaverse helped us all (or almost all of us) to become more human? This ‘counter-current’ question lingers after meeting experts in the human aspect of the metaverse and its impact on society: Marco Centorrino, Professor in the Sociology of Communication (who has ... The more the metaverse advances, the more our human side emerges
2024 7min
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Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies
Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship. The Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship is supported by National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and takes place from January 3-10, 2025 at Saguaro Lake Ranch in Mesa, Arizona. The Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists ... Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies
2024 2min
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Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
Conference Theme: Making and doing transformations In July I attended the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). This (the 11th quadrennial joint conference) was hosted by the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). EASST is the European Association for ... Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
2024 7min
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What we really need is the “Technology of the Revolution”
What do bicycles and artificial intelligence have in common? They discriminate. They were designed to do so, but few oppose it. Most drop their eyes and shoulders and … pedal, or just sit behind the desk. In any case, they look on, as models like Chat GPT choose from which point of view we should ... What we really need is the “Technology of the Revolution”
2024 6min
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Longevity: Now Available in Cans!
Longevity: Now Available in Cans! A Performance Lecture Approach to Addressing Longevity Issues from A Responsible Innovation Perspective is the latest research article from Bassetti Foundation collaborators Jonathan and Angelo Hankins. The publication appears in Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and innovation, and is the result of a call for papers focusing on longevity and ... Longevity: Now Available in Cans!
2024 4min
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Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives
Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives from Giovanna Mascheroni and Andra Siibak is dedicated to describing and critiquing practices of datafication that sustain what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Datafication is described as both an outcome and an intensifier of deep mediatization: an outcome, as almost all social action and interaction is ... Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives
2024 5min
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