{"id":27309,"date":"2010-08-04T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-science-wonk-covers-tech-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T17:56:36","slug":"a-science-wonk-covers-tech-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-science-wonk-covers-tech-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"A Science Wonk Covers Tech | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11453\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/937e3_Techonomy-Sign-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Techonomy Sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Here&rsquo;s an excerpt from my first post at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/\">Techonomy blog<\/a>&ndash;just introducing myself. You can read the full post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/a-science-wonk-covers-tech.html\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><p>This is my first post on the Techonomy blog, so I mainly want to introduce myself. I&rsquo;m Chris Mooney, a&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/\">blogger for Discover<\/a> and author of&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465046762\/chriscmooneyc-20\/\">several books<\/a> about&nbsp;the relationship between science and politics, and how things sometimes go dramatically splat in this area.<\/p><p>So I may seem, in some ways, an odd duck at Techonomy&mdash;except for the following fact.<\/p><p>As someone who&rsquo;s extensively covered climate change, evolution, and stem cell battles (among others), I&rsquo;ve learned there&rsquo;s a fundamental dynamic here. Something in science or in technology comes along and dramatically changes our lives&mdash;and then people resist it. They fight back against the future, or change, or just plain reality.<\/p><p>Grasping this dynamic has in turn led me to look for the&nbsp;<em>next <\/em>set of issues that are bound to create similar tensions. That&rsquo;s where Techonomy comes in&hellip;.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/techonomy.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/a-science-wonk-covers-tech.html\">READ ON<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kn0k9AjQqPi-3RHLVpLMQQsC_ds\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/937e3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kn0k9AjQqPi-3RHLVpLMQQsC_ds\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/937e3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/937e3_6rCPARWZ7W8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s an excerpt from my first post at the Techonomy blog&ndash;just introducing myself. You can read the full post here.This is my first post on the Techonomy blog, so I mainly want to introduce myself. I&rsquo;m Chris Mooney, a&nbsp;blogger for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-science-wonk-covers-tech-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}