Page 3 - Engineering Ethics News Today

That is the real problem Smil portrays in his book:  the fact that climate change will have to have a truly global solution.

The next time you are invited to use a new kind of technology, apply Crouch's Razor and ask yourself: is this a device or an instrument?

Mass-market TV had its own problems, but they were milder than the worst pathologies we are seeing today that social media contribute to.

Fortunately, neither Brady nor I encountered anything worse on our bike rides than a less-than-friendly user interface.

Drones originated to meet wartime needs, and it's likely that the U. S. or other allied countries can supply Ukraine with military-type drones.

If there's a specific problem caused by the superabundance of words on the Internet, it consists in what it's done to our reading habits.

No one knows yet how to make solid-state batteries cheaply. Thin-film technologies such as vacuum deposition are sometimes used.

It turns out that any fitness or health-tracking device that provides instant health information has the potential to cause harm.

Thomas Edison famously electrified New York City in 1882. New York City now faces a new kind of electrification: the electric car.

The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Council have called for a step-change in ethical decision-making, similar to that achieved in health and safety.