Machine Contingencies

Learn about our new Personal Exposure Toolkit (PET) Collaboration

Visit the PET project page and download
the new PET Recorder App that works with
the Atmotube PRO air quality monitor.

The PET empowers you to characterize environmental health hazards in the air you breathe and create compelling narratives to advocate for clean-air policies at work, school, or at home.

Research and Development for Education and Health

MACHINE CONTINGENCIES specializes in technology to foster Citizen Science, personal discovery, and community health through person-centered measurement and increased awareness of individual social and physical environments. Technology can help us become more connected to ourselves and our surroundings. We integrate hardware and software into toolkits for informal education programs, schools, public health departments, and research.

Machine Contingencies

We use education, science, and technology to achieve learning, awareness, health, and well being -- working towards practical personal and community-centered solutions..

Research Yourself

MACHINE CONTINGENCIES exists to help individuals understand their own lives better by engaging in the scientific investigation of themselves, their environments, and their communities.

Monitoring and Feedback

By monitoring and analyzing your own data, you will be able to better understand your environments, your exposures, and your experiences -- and use this knowledge to shape the future.

Private Data

We support full data privacy. You are entitled to be in total control of their data. Your data are meant for you and only you. Companies and Governments should have to ask explicitly for access to your data. Researchers are already held to this ideal; all projects with human subjects must undergo internal review. All researchers must obtain your formal Informed Consent before your data can be used. EVERYONE should have to do the same whenever your personal data are collected for any purpose.

The Machines are Coming

The pace of technology development is staggering. We must be prepared so we can ensure that our machines will be able to help us live, learn, adapt, grow, and survive in a changing world. We can't stop the machines from coming, but we CAN be partners and friends. We can establish compacts to insure privacy, security, and mutual benefit, welcoming helpers, guides, tutors, experts, employees, and family members. We must trust them so that when the time comes, they will trust us. In short, we must face and make ready for MACHINE CONTINGENCIES.

MACHINE CONTINGENCIES is a trade name for Neil Klepeis and Associates. Dr. Neil E. Klepeis is a scientist working at the nexus of public health, environmental health, education, environmental science, technology, and data science.