SCOPE Science Controversies

Establishing online, intellectual communities of scientists, classroom teachers, and science learners focused on current controversies in science that concern scientists and also connect to the interests of the general public.
http://scope.educ.washington.edu

The Impact Of Technology

How the second industrial revolution ( miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating and impoverishing our community.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm

The Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Innovation

Keeping up with technology's developments is central to anticipating its social effects. Includes links to news reports on nanotechnology, advanced computing, space, and cryogenics.
http://www.tecsoc.org/innovate/innovate.htm

Fathom

Interactive knowledge organization, combining major world wide universities who manage this searchable database. Project is presently launching.
http://www.fathom.com/index.html

Center for the Study of Technology and Society

Nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C., providing news and information on technology related issues and their effect on society.
http://www.tecsoc.org/

Red Rock Eater News Service

Mailing list and links to articles from UCLA professor Phil Agre about social and political aspects of computing and networking.
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html

The Loka Institute

Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology.
http://www.loka.org/

Scientists For Global Responsibility

Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical controversies, global energy and resource issues, alternative technologies, and global population and consumption.
http://www.sgr.org.uk

Whitleysworld

Homepage of author and radio host Whitley Strieber, covering alternative and mainstream science news and debates.
http://www.unknowncountry.com/

State of the World: An Imaginary Dialogue Amongst Several Real Critics of Science

An excerpt from the transcript of the (imaginary, but based on real quotations) proceedings of the advisory committee on ecological catastrophe, charged with producing three policy recommendations.
http://home.columbus.rr.com/sciences/state_of_world.html

Africa in a High-Technology Millennium

British Broadcasting Corporation interviews Nigerian computer and Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, on what science and technology can do for Africa in the Information Age.
http://www.emeagwali.com/interviews/millennium/BBC-network-africa-questions-on-emerging-millennial-technology.html

Center for Technology Studies

Resources from the Pacific Research Institute supporting ways to promote opportunity, innovation, and economic growth by limiting government intervention in the electronic frontier.
http://www.pacificresearch.org/centers/cts/

Technology Watch Centre

The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science & Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
http://www.nsf.ac.lk/adbmost/twc/twc.htm

A Survey Of Technology In Cities

Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/urban/urb_age/fall98/techno.html

Government Technology

News, publications, conferences, and case studies about using technology in state and local government.
http://www.govtech.net/

Potomac Institute

A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society.
http://www.potomacinstitute.org/

Pragmatic and Dogmatic Physics; Presentation and Response in

A report concerned with the analysis of one particular article that a German physicist published in Nature in 1938, the background of its publication and the response to it. The article had antisemitic aspects even as it was an article about scientific
http://www.geocities.com/pragmaticdogmatic/index.html