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New Reports from the U.K. Office of Science & Technology

Published on February 9, 2008 in Blogging on OTA and OTA in the news. byadmin

hybridvigor.net | By Denise Caruso | February 8, 2008

“The U.K.’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) functions something like the late lamented U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, killed off by Newt Gingrich back in the ’90s. They regularly publish brief but fairly comprehensive, interdisciplinary reports with cross-sector relevance on trends in science and technology.”

POST recently published three POSTnotes entitled “Ecological Networks“, “Smart Metering of Electricity and Gas” and “Autism“. The first two POSTnotes for 2008 were on “smart” materials and systems, and synthetic biology.”

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Technology Assessment – Yes; Office of Technology Assessment – Not Yet

Published on February 8, 2008 in OTA in the news. byadmin

By Richard Jones | July 5, 2007 | FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News

During the FY 2008 budget process, legislation was proposed to appropriate money to the General Accountability Office (GAO) to perform technology assessment studies. This article describes the status of the funds in July 2007. (Postscript: In the end, this proposal died.)

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Political Science

Published on February 8, 2008 in OTA in the news. byadmin

By Ralph Nader | May 19, 2006 | Humbolt Sentinel

A guest editorial by Ralph Nader on “Gingrich, “futurism” and the abolition of the Office of Technology Assessment”.

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