Chapter 8 Technology and the future
Technology Assessment (TA) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with emerging, technology-induced societal problems for the purpose of shaping technology and technological development. TA is a perfect case for problem-oriented interdisciplinarity at the science-society interface. This chapter go...
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| description | Technology Assessment (TA) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with emerging, technology-induced societal problems for the purpose of shaping technology and technological development. TA is a perfect case for problem-oriented interdisciplinarity at the science-society interface. This chapter goes further and sheds light on a specific approach in TA, namely Prospective Technology Assessment (ProTA), which includes critical-reflexive elements in a prospective or anticipatory assessment of science and technology in very early phases of new and emerging knowledge fields; in this light ProTA can also be seen as an assessment of science (Liebert/Schmidt 2010). ProTA complements and extends well-established methods of Technology Assessment that have been used in policy consultancy from the late 1960s on. Applications of this approach to the field of synthetic/systems biology illustrate interdisciplinary core elements of Prospective Technology Assessment. It turns out that the critical-reflexive concept of interdisciplinarity incorporated in ProTA can be regarded as meta-instrumentalist: Thus ProTA contributes to the self-critique and self-reflexivity of the science/technology system. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-789312025-07-30T11:54:58Z Chapter 8 Technology and the future Schmidt, Jan Cornelius History of Science; History of Technology; Philosophy of Technology; Scientific Ethics; Synthetic Biology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society Technology Assessment (TA) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with emerging, technology-induced societal problems for the purpose of shaping technology and technological development. TA is a perfect case for problem-oriented interdisciplinarity at the science-society interface. This chapter goes further and sheds light on a specific approach in TA, namely Prospective Technology Assessment (ProTA), which includes critical-reflexive elements in a prospective or anticipatory assessment of science and technology in very early phases of new and emerging knowledge fields; in this light ProTA can also be seen as an assessment of science (Liebert/Schmidt 2010). ProTA complements and extends well-established methods of Technology Assessment that have been used in policy consultancy from the late 1960s on. Applications of this approach to the field of synthetic/systems biology illustrate interdisciplinary core elements of Prospective Technology Assessment. It turns out that the critical-reflexive concept of interdisciplinarity incorporated in ProTA can be regarded as meta-instrumentalist: Thus ProTA contributes to the self-critique and self-reflexivity of the science/technology system. 2022-03-03T04:00:45Z 2022-03-03T04:00:45Z 2022-03-02T11:24:37Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53177 9781138230071 9781032118468 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78931 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53177/1/9781315387109_10.4324_9781315387109-9.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53177/1/9781315387109_10.4324_9781315387109-9.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315387109-9 10.4324/9781315387109-9 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity 9781138230071 9781032118468 Routledge 24 open access |
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