Although several medical technologies have been around since decades and are in the continuous process of development, some latest technologies are changing the way medicine would be practiced in the future. These technologies would allow medical practice from anywhere, any time and from any device. These include smart phones, Tablet PCs, Touch screens, digital ink, voice recognition, Electroni...

What potential problems do emerging nanotechnologies present? Who should decide how, where, and by whom new nanotechnologies should be pursued and regulated? This paper begins with a brief review of two attempts to deal with issues such as those emerging alongside nanotechnologies. In the first, Frederick Fiedler and Glenn Reynolds draw attention to new technologies in the medical field. In the...

The continual increasing performance of microelectronics products places a high demand on packaging technologies. Key drivers such as thermal management, power delivery, interconnect density, and integration require novel material development and new package architectures. In this paper, package technology migrations for microprocessors and communication products are described. Material needs f...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been demonstrated to be a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer across epidemiologic and virologic studies worldwide (1). However, the biologic mechanisms for malignant transformation by HPV were well established long before the epidemiologic studies showed any consistency among investigators or across study designs. Once sensitive biologic assays became ava...

Endoscopic imaging is in part responsible for the recent drop in deaths from gastrointestinal cancers and also for detecting pre-cancerous and non-cancerous conditions and allowing them to be treated effectively, although techniques are far from perfect. Endoscopic imaging has evolved considerably from fiber optic systems 50 years ago to high resolution and high definition systems used at prese...

Due to the quick increase in number of mobile, ubiquitous, cloud, network and communication applications and studies, many computer and communication systems, wired or wireless, have been released to service their customers (human users or other systems). However, hackers everywhere around the world may attack these systems for some reasons, e.g., stealing one company’s business secrets for ano...

e s o P s m p a o p d a a o The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Technology Committee provides reviews of emerging endoscopic technologies that have the potential to affect the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidence-based methodology is used, with MEDLINE and PubMed literature searches to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic. Because many topics have a limited numb...

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Wireless network survivability is an issue of great concern to current telecommunication industry. Since loss of service in wireless network, for example cellular system, due to disaster and catastrophic failures could be devastating and result in significant revenue or even lives loss. This becomes apparent during the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Septemb...

In this essay, a new approach for the ethical study of emerging technology ethics will be presented, called anticipatory technology ethics (ATE). The ethics of emerging technology is the study of ethical issues at the R&D and introduction stage of technology development through anticipation of possible future devices, applications, and social consequences. I will argue that a major problem for ...