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This article argues that to achieve a technology neutral law, technology specific law is sometimes required. To explain this we discriminate between three objectives, often implied in the literature on technological neutrality of law. The first we call the compensation objective, which refers to the need to have technology specific law in place whenever specific technological designs threated the substance of human rights. The second we call the ...

This chapter takes leave of the idea that lawyers can remain immersed in legal text. It takes a stand for a careful reflection on what data-driven architectures do to some of the assumptions of modern law that are mistakenly taken for granted. Merely enacting the presumption of innocence by means of legal code will not do in the present future. If the defaults of Big Data analytics all point in the direction of precrime punishment or the ...

The ability of urban wastewater systems to adapt and transform as a response to change is an integral part of sustainable development. This requires technology and infrastructure that can be adapted to new operational challenges. In this study the adaptive capacity of urban wastewater systems is evaluated by assessing the interdependencies between system components. In interdependent and therefore tightly coupled systems, changes to one systems ...

Careful to avoid uninformed positioning, I limited myself in my previous contribution to a Science & Technology Studies (STS)-flavoured stance about the need for closer scrutiny of existing or novel technologies when considering the role of law and regu- lation. Detailed accounts of individual technologies allow better assessments of pos- sible ethical dilemmas created by these technologies. Although authors disagree about the degree of ...

The chemical industry must become carbon neutral by 2050, meaning that process-, energy-, and product-related CO2 emissions from fossil sources are completely suppressed. This goal can only be reached by using renewable energy, secondary raw materials, or CO2 as a carbon source. The latter can be done indirectly through the bioeconomy or directly by utilizing CO2 from air or biogenic sources (integrated biorefinery). Until 2030, CO2 waste from ...

It seems paradoxical that the name of the new geologic age might be the Anthropocene while converging NBIC technologies are advancing to the point where some transhumanists are predicting that humanity will potentially be evolving into a new post-human species in the next 50-100 years. New technologies, such as 3D printing of body parts and genetic engineering, bring about both exciting and potentially disturbing future scenarios. Transhumanists ...

Because of ever growing use of wireless applications and inflexibilities in the current way spectrum is allocated, spectrum is becoming more and more scarce. One of the methods to overcome this is spectrum sensing. In spectrum sensing research, use case analysis is often used to determine challenges and opportunities for this technology. However, such use cases vary widely in terms of business context, so that assessment of viability for one ...

It is not your regular soup. It is fiery, it reeks of garlic, and is made of tripe. They say the Bulgarian shkembe chorba is best eaten after heavy drinking: its burning aromas can wake the dead. Borrowed from the urban culture of the Ottoman Empire, the tripe-and-milk soup has been incorporated in the Bulgarian cuisine to symbolize real, rough life, adventure and excess. This article argues that despite of its potential to be seen as ‘manly’ ...

In recent years, new spin-dependent thermal effects have been discovered in ferromagnets, stimulating a growing interest in spin caloritronics, a field that exploits the interaction between spin and heat currents 1,2 . Amongst the most intriguing phenomena is the spin Seebeck effect 3-5 , in which a thermal gradient gives rise to spin currents that are detected through the inverse spin Hall effect 6-8 . Non-magnetic materials such as graphene ...