PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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How does Technological Innovation Happen? A conversation with W. Brian Arthur on The Nature of Technology.
Abstract: More than any thing else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being," says W. Brian Arthur. Yet, until now major questions related to the evolution of technology have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from -- how exactly does invent... read more
Date: 10/02/2011 - 4:00 pm
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An End to Reticence? Natural Scientists and the Politics of Global Change Speaker(s): Thomas Homer-Dixon
Abstract: A convergence of climate, resource, technological, and economic stresses gravely threaten the future of humankind. Scientists have a special role in humankind\'s response, because only rigorous science can help us understand the complexities and potential consequences of these stresses. Diminishing... read more
Date: 13/02/2008 - 2:00 pm
Series: Colloquium
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