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The price of cost-efficient killing
How drone-warfare forms a huge risk to the safety of innocent people, including ourselves.Every technological implementation comes with its own set of values and risks. 1 Risk can consist of financial consequences, but safety may also be at stake. Safety engineering is one of the pillars and key values of Responsible Innovation. 2 Today I will discuss a very controversial technological innovation. An innovation which is developed in the United States and already used by the U.S. Air… -
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The Ford Pinto Case and human life value
Jordi Granés Puig - In 1968, Ford was losing the U.S. car market against smaller and cheaper European cars. The general manager decided to… -
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Value-sensitive design on Societal Cost-Benefit Analyses: reducing formal-informal discrepancy
Societal Cost-Benefit Analyses (SCBA) have showed to be very useful in monitoring the effects of (technological) projects on the… -
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Cost to Benefit Analysis of Free Higher Education for All in the U.S.A.
An important issue in the 2016 American Presidential Election, brought to the center of attention by candidate Bernie Sanders, is the… -
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Cost-Benefit Analysis: To Frack or not to Frack?
This column tries to asses briefly the costs and benefits of fracking and the international risks and implications of the technology. -
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