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Introducing new technologies

From the International Journal of Emerging Techologies and Society, Danielle Couch, Pranee Liamputtong and Marian Pitts (La Trobe): Online Daters and the Use of Technology for Surveillance and Risk Management. Gladden J. Pappin (Harvard): Liberty, Technology, and the Advent of Social Networking. Rachel Lee (UCLA): Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and Other "Novel" Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media. Introducing the iFactory: Apple reinvented gadgets — now it should reinvent how gadgets are manufactured. An interview with Edward Jung, the CTO of Intellectual Ventures, who believes we need a new model of innovation to solve our biggest problems. The four stages of introducing new technologies: Futurist Brian David Johnson explains how society moves from fear to acceptance of smartphones, computers, and other advances. Earth Station: Alexis Madrigal on the afterlife of technology at the end of the world. An interview with Peter-Paul Verbeek, author of Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things.