Volume 38 Issue 2 (2022)
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Editorial
Tom Mandeville died on Tuesday 7 June 2022. Tom was one of the trio who founded Prometheus in 1983. Tom it was who christened the journal, odd as he was…
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Three decades of research on innovation and inequality: causal scenarios, explanatory factors, and suggestions
Prompted by rising income inequality (in short, inequality) in advanced economies, a rapidly growing number of studies across various fields and disciplines of social science have, since the 1990s, sought…
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Shades of gray: understanding the ethics of society’s technology and innovation propensities using national culture
This study examines the effects of national culture on national innovation. This is important because underlying values, which relate to national cultureand are the basis of ethical stances, are predicted…
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The changing context of innovation management: a critique of the relevance of the stage-gate approach to current organizations
The stage-gate method was initially developed as a description of the new product development practices within high-performing firms. At its heart the concept is simple: and the flow of activity…
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Maximilian Platzer and Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, The Green Energy Ship Project: Renewable Energy from Wind over Water
In 2017, William Kingston reviewed the Hannon report from the University of Strathclyde1 on British attempts to capture ocean wave energy (Prometheus 35, 2, pp.145–58). The report is a study…
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Simone Natale, Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test
Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test, Simone Natale (2021) 191pp., £20 paperback, Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN: 978-0190080372 In the scenario that sees the…
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Timon Beyes, Robin Holt and Claus Pias (eds) Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies
Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, Timon Beyes, Robin Holt and Claus Pias (eds) (2020) 558pp., £110 hardback, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN: 9780198809913 There are a few…
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Benedetta Brevini, Is AI Good for the Planet?
Is AI Good for the Planet? Benedetta Brevini (2021) 160pp., $US13 paperback, Polity Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 978-1509547951 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been hailed as an essential solution to practically all…
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Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do, Erik J. Larson, 2021, 320pp., $30 hardback, Belknap Press, Cambridge MA, ISBN 978-0674983519 The Myth of Artificial…
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Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis (eds) Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles
Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles, Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis (eds) (2020) 288pp., US$35.00 paperback, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, ISBN: 978-0262538558 Body-centrism: bridges and boundaries ‘Embodied computing’ is defined…