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is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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is assistant professor of leadership and interdisciplinary studies, and Senior Global Futures Scholar at Arizona State University, US. He is the co-author, with Emily Ray, of Be Prepared: Doomsday ...

is a professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently serving as the president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of ...