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Instititute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies






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Changes and Trends, For Better or For Worse

Mike Treder


Ethical Technology


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December 31, 2009


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The Pew Research Center recently asked Americans their opinions on whether “recent changes and trends” were for the better, for the worse, or hadn’t made much difference:


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Most of the results above are not too surprising. It’s fun to speculate, though, about how these questions might look after another decade or two:


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This is just meant to be for kicks, of course. Not necessarily intended as predictive. Happy New Decade!


Mike Treder is the Managing Director of the IEET, and former Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.

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