JONATHAN HANKINS
Author, Speaker
Smart Cities course
Harvard Graduate school of Design offers a course entitled Smart Cities: An introduction to urban Integrated Networked Solutions and may well be one of the leading exponents of responsible innovation through design. The course is taught by Nashid Nabian, and has produced some extremely interesting uses for technology. As the name suggests the focus is ... Smart Cities course
2012 2mn
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Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource Center
One of the issues has been repeatedly raised at the Bassetti Foundation is that of finding and communicating reliable scientific information. Journalists are often non-specialized and lack scientific training, and the reprinting of press releases that may not be unbiased is common. Here at the University of Harvard staff have created a Journalist’s Resource Center, ... Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource Center
2012 3mn
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Entrepreneurship and Technical Change, a Book Review
At the Bassetti Foundation we believe that responsibility in innovation must lie in the process, and therefore with the entrepreneur. From this point of view the 2011 publication entitled Entrepreneurship and Technological Change (published by Edward Elgar) offers insight and analysis into the influence of entrepreneurship upon technical change and innovation. The book is divided ... Entrepreneurship and Technical Change, a Book Review
2012 3mn
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Super seeing, US Military Eye Enhancement
Last week the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published an article that touched upon a topic that readers of the Foundation website will be familiar with and may be interested in. The article is in Italian and can be found here, but I would like to describe it briefly for our English language readership. The ... Super seeing, US Military Eye Enhancement
2012 2mn
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Some Responsible Design Projects
In this post I would like to point readers towards some interesting design projects that I have come across during my online research and my travels around the US and Europe. The Massachusetts General Hospital has a newly opened museum, and on display is an incubator made from car parts. One of the most serious ... Some Responsible Design Projects
2012 4mn
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Fukushima Report Released
Last year as the Fukushima disaster was unfolding I wrote an article entitled Reports of a Fukushima Cover Up Abound, and I would like to follow up on this article by taking a look at The Official Report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Committee. The report comes at a rather difficult and controversial ... Fukushima Report Released
2012 3mn
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23andMe Awarded Their First Patent
Following on from my post about my attendance at the Architecture for Life conference at the Kennedy School of Government I would like to direct readers to a very interesting and informative article. The article entitled ‘Patenting and Personal Genomics: 23andMe Receives its First Patent, and Plenty of Questions’ appears on the Genomics Law Report ... 23andMe Awarded Their First Patent
2012 3mn
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Sequencing the Genome of Unborn Babies
As a follow on from my post about 23andMe and genetic testing last month, I would like to point readers towards a story that is just breaking here in the US. The New York Times carried a story on its front page on 7th June that is rapidly spreading, in which it reported that an ... Sequencing the Genome of Unborn Babies
2012 3mn
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Launch of the UCS Center for Science and Democracy
On Thursday May 17th 2012 I attended the launch of The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Center for Science and Democracy. The launch was entitled Science and Democracy in Turmoil: Restoring a Great American Relationship and was held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Somerville Massachusetts. The program included a welcome by Leslie ... Launch of the UCS Center for Science and Democracy
2012 8mn
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Who’s Responsible?
Cristina Grasseni and The Bassetti Foundation at EASA The 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists conference (EASA) takes place at Université Paris Nanterre in July of this year, and long time collaborator Cristina Grasseni will participate on a panel on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation, as part of an event entitled “Who’s Responsible?”. The panel ... Who’s Responsible?
2012 5mn
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28 Seeds, a review of the event
This week saw the final evening of an extremely successful Boston Center for the Arts run of the multimedia event entitled 28 Seeds, and I was fortunate enough to experience it. The event takes the form of a musical play, and is presented by Liars and Believers Theater co in collaboration with Walter Sickert and ... 28 Seeds, a review of the event
2012 3mn
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Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 3
(…continues from the previous entry). During the afternoon panel Sharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance explained her interest in creating partnerships between genetic databases in order to use the massive number of participants and wealth of genetic materials available but currently divided between different databases. She talked about the need to move the information about ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 3
2012 5mn
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