Journal article
Google "Toaster Laser"
Issues in Science and Technology, Vol.41(4)
2025
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Abstract
In “How Dual Use Puts Research Under the Microscope” (Issues, Spring 2025), Håvard Rustad Markussen asks a pragmatic and incredibly topical question: Is “dual use” still an appropriate term for export control discussions, especially in a higher education environment? He describes dual use as “technology with both civilian and military applications,” echoing an approach nearly identical to export controls across the wider Western world. Yet the very notion of dual use is fraught with interpretive difficulty—even a toaster can have military application (if you doubt that, do a Google search for “toaster laser”). If all research and all technology are dual use (as Markussen contends), then how does one regulate and control access to and availability of potentially hazardous technologies?
Details
- Title
- Google "Toaster Laser"
- Creators
- Brendan Walker-Munro - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Issues in Science and Technology, Vol.41(4)
- Publisher
- Arizona State University
- Identifiers
- 991013304828802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article