Chapter 8 Technology and the future : Advancing prospective technology assessment

• Tác giả: Jan Cornelius Schmidt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1032118468
• ISBN-13: 978-1138230071
• ISBN: 97813153871099
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 001 Knowledge
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (24 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 232524
• Chủ đề: 1. Impact of science & technology on society

Tóm tắt

 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.