Prometheus Reimagined: Technology, Environment, and Law in the Twenty-First Century

by Albert C. Lin

Technologies such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and geoengineering promise to address many of our most serious problems, yet they also bring environmental and health-related risks and uncertainties. Moreover, they can come to dominate global production systems and markets with very little public input or awareness. Existing governance institutions and processes do not adequately address the risks of new technologies,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472118838
• ISBN13: 9780472118830
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"