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Slate continues: "More recently, the trend has been to make Wikipedia the target of attack, aiming to denigrate the site’s credibility without good reason or claim that it is controlled by a secretive cabal (instead of a cohort of thousands of volunteers that anyone can join)."
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Slate continues: "More recently, the trend has been to make Wikipedia the target of attack, aiming to denigrate the site’s credibility without good reason or claim that it is controlled by a secretive cabal (instead of a cohort of thousands of volunteers that anyone can join)."
Calo says that the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics unit doesn't have "anything like the capacity that the OTA had."
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Tech policy could be smarter and less partisan if Congress hadn’t shut down this innovative program
For years, the Office of Technology Assessment helped Congress see around corners on science and tech. Its 1995 shutdown left lawmakers flying blind.
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August 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Calo says that the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics unit doesn't have "anything like the capacity that the OTA had."
Read more in Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com/91378299/off...
Read more in Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com/91378299/off...
“It was an impartial repository of interdisciplinary experts who would proactively assist Congress in understanding emerging technology,” Calo said, “and to do so at a time early enough in its life cycle that it had not become full of special interests that had not grown around it, like barnacles.”
August 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“It was an impartial repository of interdisciplinary experts who would proactively assist Congress in understanding emerging technology,” Calo said, “and to do so at a time early enough in its life cycle that it had not become full of special interests that had not grown around it, like barnacles.”