New technology often gets a bad name in its early going. People don´t adapt well to change, and early applications often look clumsy and expensive. It took a long time for microwave ovens, mobile ...

Digitalisation has the capacity to radically transform the nature of work, redefining tasks, requirements and remuneration. Yet technologies have often been used to reduce worker autonomy, exacerbate ...

Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of Technology Sydney Technology can be a wonderful servant but a terrible master. As we know, its applications are not always ...

To this day I remember my “aha” moment when my eighth-grade geography teacher connected the dots representing appropriate technology, politics, culture and humanity’s future. Before that morning’s ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, governments stepped up public education efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing educational programming on local radio stations. Latin American nations took similar ...

Extracted from the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (London) n.s. 6 (3) 1981, pages 313-323. Maps, tables. Abstract, page 313. The area around Kumasi in Ashanti Region, Ghana, ...

Manufacturing technologies have become increasingly skill-intensive, and automation and other forms of innovation have reduced labor’s share of manufacturing value added. Reorienting global innovation ...

Battery news typically covers the latest, greatest laboratory or industry breakthroughs to push modern devices further and faster. Could you build your own flow battery stationary storage for ...