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Product Description: Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology...read more
By William F. Ballhaus (editor), Jean-Lou A. Chameau (editor) and Herbert S. Lin (editor)

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9780309293341 | Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology.

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Product Description: Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the industry. Many of these problems are the consequence of poor information and technology (IT) capabilities, and most importantly, the lack cognitive IT support...read more
By Herbert S. Lin (editor) and William W. Stead (editor)

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9780309130509 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, February 28, 2009), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the industry.

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Product Description: Given the growing importance of cyberspace to nearly all aspects of national life, a secure cyberspace is vitally important to the nation, but cyberspace is far from secure today. The United States faces the real risk that adversaries will exploit vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical information systems, thereby causing considerable suffering and damage...read more
By Seymour E. Goodman (editor) and Herbert S. Lin (editor)

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9780309103954 | Natl Academy Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Given the growing importance of cyberspace to nearly all aspects of national life, a secure cyberspace is vitally important to the nation, but cyberspace is far from secure today.

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Product Description: Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to hint at the possibilities for inappropriate or unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives...read more
By Herbert S. Lin (editor), Lynette I. Millett (editor) and James Waldo (editor)

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9780309103923 | Natl Academy Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world.

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