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Author: Roman Oliman

Where are we and where to from here?

November 26, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

According to Harari we as humans by and large place a large focus on the state and the market for…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

I would like a CRISPR image of the possible negative outcomes.

November 12, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

The one example that frightens me the most is in Michael Specter’s article How The DNA Revolution is Changing Us.…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Can Deism and Darwin agree?

November 6, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

I will not lie and tell you that I completely understood this week’s reading. I first learned to read in…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

IPCC response

October 22, 2018 Roman Oliman 1 Comment

Technological fixes have been developed or a least research to aid the world in curbing climate change and keeping it…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Eggs in a leaky radiator

October 15, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

LeCain argues in his essays that technological fixes can be classified into three general categories; transformational, relocational, and delaying. LeCain…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Mining and how it be

October 7, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

In Mass Destruction, Timothy LeCain describes how mining technology made quantum leaps in the decades following Thomas Edison’s development of…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Is Progress “progress”

September 24, 2018 Roman Oliman 1 Comment

According to Harari the enterprises of empire, science, and economy, are inherently linked and are what has allowed the rise…

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Posted in: Week 05: Harari (Part 2) and Johnson (Part 1)

Homo Sapiens and the rise to power

September 16, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

Harari argues that the Cognitive and Agricultural revolutions are the foundations for modern society.  The author explains that the first…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Is the Brave New World something to work towards?

September 9, 2018 Roman Oliman Leave a comment

Douthwaite gives a strong conviction in his writing for the perusal of solutions to society’s problems through technology and engineering.…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

Bitterroot Valley Case Study

September 3, 2018 Roman Oliman 2 Comments

The Bitterroot Valley of southwestern Montana faces a multitude of environmental issues today.  They only seem to get worse as…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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