This is my first post on the Techonomy blog, so I mainly want to introduce myself. I’m Chris Mooney, a blogger for Discover and author of several books about the relationship between science and politics, and how things sometimes go dramatically splat in this area. So I may seem, in some ways, an odd duck at Techonomy—except for the following fact. As someone who’s extensively covered climate change, evolution, and stem cell battles (among others), I’ve learned there’s a fundamental dynamic here. Something in science or in technology comes along and dramatically changes our lives—and then people resist it. They fight back against the future, or change, or just plain reality. Grasping this dynamic has in turn led me to look for the next set of issues that are bound to create similar tensions. That's where Techonomy comes in....READ ON.
Here's an excerpt from my first post at the Techonomy blog--just introducing myself. You can read the full post here.
