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   BROWSE BY SOURCE : NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
New Office to Usher Domestic Use of Spy Satellites -- Pam Fessler  -- National Public Radio  -- August 15, 2007

The Bush administration has decided to expand the government's use of information from U.S. spy satellites for homeland security and domestic law-enforcement purposes. Officials say the change is intended primarily to help them monitor the borders and coastal areas. But it is also raising some serious privacy concerns.

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Man-Machine Merger Arriving Sooner Than You Think -- Rick Kleffel  -- National Public Radio  -- July 23, 2006

Vernor Vinge and and Cory Doctorow discuss the technological singularity and conclude that a cooperative model linking computers, networks, and people makes the most sense.

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Discussion of Stealth Satellite Program -- John Pike  -- National Public Radio  -- December 13, 2004

John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org discusses the recent congressional debate over the stealth spy satellite program and offers technical reasons why the program may be unnecessary.

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Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm for High Technology -- Staff  -- National Public Radio  -- July 18, 2000

Americans love the technological revolution. A new poll by National Public Radio, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government shows that people overwhelmingly think that computers and the Internet have made Americans' lives better. Although people recognize some dangers in what they see (and would like the government to protect them from these dangers), they are not particularly bothered by potential perils like information overload or phones, faxes and e-mails that never stop. They are buying computers at a fast pace, they are hooking up to the Internet from home, and, for the most part, they like what they see. A separate survey of children age 10-17 shows that they are even more positive than adults, and nearly all of them have access to modern technology at school.

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