Past CSPO Events

• April 06, 2016
  CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch

  enLIGHTeNING Lunch with Telpriore Tucker

  Electric Bikes: Ride into the Future of Electrified Transportation

  

  Electric bikes (e-bikes) are a trending technology combining a traditional bike with a battery and motor for instant propulsion.

  Telpriore Tucker

• March 16, 2016
  CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch

  EnLIGHTeNING Lunch with Sarah Davies

  Hacking is Making is Doing: Hacker and Makerspaces and the Hacker Spirit

  This talk reflects on the question: what goes on within maker spaces, and what do their users understand themselves as engaged in?

  Sarah Davies

• March 11, 2016
  CSPO DC - New Tools for Science Policy

  Different Technologies, Different Learning Rates: Policy implications for energy investments

  Learning curves have become a robust technique for modeling technological change in energy portfolios and as inputs into forecasting models. However traditional financial strategies have been applied to energy generation portfolios without full consideration of the effect of learning rates.

  The simplicity and universality of the experience curve (or performance curve) framework led R&D managers to apply it to everything from airplane manufacturing to nuclear power plants.  It has been well understood for some time that different technologies have very different learning rates, but there was little or no theory as to why. Deborah Strumsky will discuss recent work that provided insights on the underlying determinants of learning rates differences across technologies, and the extent to which policies are able to accelerate or influence them.

  Dr. Strumsky will discuss the implications of her research for policies related to mitigating climate change. Learning curves have become a robust technique for modeling technological change in energy portfolios and as inputs into forecasting models. However traditional financial strategies have been applied to energy generation portfolios without full consideration of the effect of learning rates. Dr. Strumsky will offer simulation results from recent work on improved energy portfolio investment strategies, and what it may mean for technologies like photovoltaics.

  Deborah Strumsky

• February 29, 2016
  CSPO DC

  Climate Change: This Time, It’s Personal

  Personal narratives can provide the diversity of voices and values needed to effectively confront the complex challenges of a changing world. In a provocative new essay, award-winning environmental journalist Andrew C. Revkin brings forth one of these vital stories: his own. Chronicling the shifts in his thinking (and writing) over thirty years of covering climate change for outlets like the New York Times, he concludes, surprisingly, “global warming doesn’t worry me.”

  Please join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Andrew about the challenges of writing about climate change and making an impact on readers through personal narrative. He will be joined by Lee Gutkind, founding editor of Creative Nonfiction, and Daniel Sarewitz, co-editor of Issues in Science and Technology; Andrew’s essay appears in the current issues of both magazines.

  Andy Revkin, Daniel Sarewitz, Lee Gutkind

• February 24, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  EnLIGHTeNING Lunch with Lauren Withycombe Keeler

  Helping cities cope with disruptive technologies: The case of self-driving cars

  Presentation of the opportunities and challenges posed by anticipatory governance and responsible innovation for helping cities plan for, absorb, and direct disruptive technologies within their jurisdictions by exploring the case of self-driving cars.

  Lauren Withycombe Keeler

• February 15, 2016
  CSPO AZ

  Future of Consciousness

  Part 1 of the "Future of X" series presented by the School for the Future of Innovation in Society

  

  Conversation about the futures we want to create

  with Gregg Pascal Zachary, Professor of Practice, School of the Future of Innovation in Society and Gaymon Bennett, Assistant Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology

  Light snacks, refreshments provided
  RSVP online: bit.ly/FutureOfTalks

  Gaymon Bennett, G. Pascal (Gregg) Zachary

• February 12, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  Symposium with Laura Hosman

  Appropriate Technologies and Experiential Learning: Possibilities, Pitfalls & Pivots

  

  This talk will explore some of the issues associated with appropriate technologies, and more specifically, with technology-in-the-schools projects in the developing world.

  Laura Hosman

• January 28, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  Science Fiction TV Dinner: Starships from the 1970s

  with Dave Guston

  

  Join us for a screening and conversation with Dave Guston, founding director of ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and Ben Minteer, Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair in the School of Life Sciences.

  David Guston, Ben Minteer