{"id":1187,"date":"2017-06-08T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:57:45","slug":"is-progress-outpacing-precaution-experts-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Is Progress Outpacing Precaution? Experts Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/486748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b8\/Beyond_Causation.png\/221px-Beyond_Causation.png\" width=\"221\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by An Arres.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No one expects the machinery of progress to roll backwards, but sometimes it seems that no one is watching the speedometer (or manning the brakes, assuming any exist). \u00a0Is this a fair assessment? If so, should we be worried \u2014 and what can we do about it?<\/p>\n<p>In this feature, experts on technology, risk, science, policy and neuroscience discuss risk, innovation and how our values affect our conceptions of both.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/486748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASU Experts Weigh the Risks of Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one expects the machinery of progress to roll backwards, but sometimes it seems that no one is watching the speedometer (or manning the brakes, assuming any exist). \u00a0Is this a fair assessment? If so, should we be worried \u2014 and what can we do about it? In this feature, experts on technology, risk, science, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Progress Outpacing Precaution? Experts Weigh In<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,60,185,76,12,63,94,46,84,50,14,82,20,73,67,475,86,74,415,3,13],"tags":[72,1111,1083,644,16,17,1254,639,1257,23,34,35,1082,115,79,25,68,130,221,1255,145,21,635,1256],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-biochemistry","category-chemistry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-computing","category-consumer","category-culture","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-genetics","category-geoscience","category-green","category-health","category-internet","category-materials","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-philosophy","category-physics","category-psychology","category-science","category-technology","tag-climate-change","tag-crispr-cas9","tag-dengue","tag-dna","tag-economics","tag-environment","tag-gene-drives","tag-genetic-modification","tag-gmo","tag-insects","tag-insurance","tag-liability","tag-mosquito","tag-nanotechnology","tag-nasa","tag-nature","tag-pathology","tag-robotics","tag-satellites","tag-self-driving-cars","tag-smartphones","tag-social-media","tag-synthetic-biology","tag-zika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}