Assessing The Societal Implications Of Emerging Technologies

Author : Evan S. Michelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317302230
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies written by Evan S. Michelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing problem of interest in the field of science and technology policy is that the next generation of innovations is arriving at an accelerating rate, and the governance system is struggling to catch up. Current approaches and institutions for effective technology assessment are ill suited and poorly designed to proactively address the multidimensional, interconnected societal impacts of science and technology advancements that are already taking place and expected to continue over the course of the 21st century. This book offers tangible insights into the strategies deployed by well-known, high-profile organizations involved in anticipating the various societal and policy implications of nanotechnology and synthetic biology. It focuses predominantly on an examination of the practices adopted by the often-cited and uniquely positioned Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in the United States, as well as being informed by comparisons with a range of institutions also interested in embedding forward-looking perspectives in their respective area of innovation. The book lays out one of the first actionable roadmaps that other interested stakeholders can follow when working toward institutionalizing anticipatory governance practices throughout the policymaking process.

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Author : Federica Lucivero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319232827
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Assessments of Emerging Technologies written by Federica Lucivero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically addresses the issue of assessing the normative nature of visions of emerging technologies in an epistemologically robust way. In the context of democratic governance of emerging technologies, not only it is important to reflect on technologies’ moral significance, but also to address their emerging and future oriented character. The book proposes an original approach to deal with the issue of “plausible” ethical evaluation of new technologies. Taking its start from current debates about Technology Assessment, the proposed solution emerges as a combination of theoretical and methodological insights from the fields of Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies and a normative justification based on pragmatist ethics. The book’s main contribution is to engage a diverse and interdisciplinary audience (ethicists, philosophers, social scientists, technology assessment researchers and practitioners) in a reflection concerning the epistemological challenges that are associated to the endeavour of appraising the moral significance of emerging technologies in the attempt of democratically governing them. It brings together concepts and methodologies from different disciplines and shows their synergy in applying them to two specific case studies of emerging biomedical technologies.

Author : Neelke Doorn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400778449
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early engagement and new technologies: Opening up the laboratory written by Neelke Doorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the topic’s urgency and centrality, this is the first edited volume to offer a comprehensive assessment of the varying approaches to early engagement with new technologies, including nanotechnology, synthetic biology, biotechnology and ICT. Covering five main approaches to early engagement—constructive technology assessment (CTA), value-sensitive design (VSD), midstream modulation (MM), the network approach for moral evaluation, and political technology assessment—the book will be a pivotal text in the rapidly developing research field of ELSI, which explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of new technologies. Featuring leading scholars who discuss each early engagement approach in turn, the chapters cover both theory and applications, and include evaluative assessments of specific instances of early adoption of technologies. Further contributions focus on theoretical issues relevant to all approaches, including interdisciplinary cooperation, normativity and intervention, and political and public relevance. The publication has added profile due to the requirement of multi-billion-dollar research programs in the US and Europe to engage in ELSI research alongside that of the technical development itself, even in the early stages. Its comprehensive scrutiny of the core factors in early engagement will ensure a readership of policy makers as well as scientists and engineers.

Author : Gerhard Banse
Publisher : edition sigma
ISBN 13 : 3894049413
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing Societal Implications of Converging Technological Development written by Gerhard Banse and published by edition sigma. This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diana M. Bowman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315340739
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embedding New Technologies into Society written by Diana M. Bowman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging. The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology. The are, however, a number of tools that can now be utilized by stakeholders to bridge the chasm that exists between the science and innovation dimensions on the one hand, and the societal dimensions on the other. This edited volume will draw together leading researchers from the domains of law, philosophy, political science, public administration and the natural sciences in order to demonstrate how tools such as, for example, constructive technology assessment, regulatory governance and societal scenarios, may be employed by stakeholders to assist in successfully embedding new technologies into society. This volume will focus primarily on the embedding of two emergent and emerging technologies: nanotechnologies and synthetic biology. Government, industry and the epistemic community continue to struggle with how best to balance the promised benefits of an emerging technology with concerns about its potential impacts. There is a growing body of literature that has examined these challenges from various cultural, scientific and jurisdictional dimensions. There is, however, much work that still needs to be done; this includes articulating the successes and failures of attempts to the societal embedding of technologies and their associated products. This edited volume is significant and timely, as unlike other books currently on the market, it shall draw from real work experiences and experiments designed anticipate the societal embedding of emerging technologies. This empirical work shall be supported by robust theoretical underpinnings.

Author : Tugrul U. Daim
Publisher : Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 9783503126750
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Assessment written by Tugrul U. Daim and published by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding the technology dynamics is a required capability in today's technology driven industries. This volume focuses on three areas: technology assessment, technology forecasting and technology diffusion. It shows: an introduction to different types of assessment methods and applications from different sectors including energy, healthcare and communications; technology forecasting and foresight and a review of conventional and emerging methods; and the diffusion of technologies by exploring adoption of products and services from different sectors."--Back cover.

Author : Michael, M.G.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466645830
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies written by Michael, M.G. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents case studies, literature reviews, ethnographies, and frameworks supporting the emerging technologies of RFID implants while also highlighting the current and predicted social implications of human-centric technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : William S. Bainbridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402054327
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nanotechnology: Societal Implications written by William S. Bainbridge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology promise great technical breakthroughs in the coming decades. In this book, leading scientists, engineers, and social scientists review the possible uses of these impending technical developments in various industrial, medical, and national security applications. They also examine the corresponding ethical, legal, social, economic, and educational issues that these developments raise.

Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000151999
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Challenges of Emerging Medical Technologies written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays emphasizes society’s increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology. Expansion of technological capacity and attention to patient safety have long been integral to improving healthcare delivery but only relatively recently have concepts like respect, distributive justice, privacy, and autonomy gained some power to shape the development, use, and refinement of medical tools and techniques. Medical ethics goes beyond making better medicine to thinking about how to make the field of medicine better. These essays showcase several ways in which modern ethical thinking is improving safety, efficacy and efficiency of medical technology, increasing access to medical care, and empowering patients to choose care that comports with their desires and beliefs. Included are complimentary ethical approaches as well as compelling counter-arguments. Together, the articles demonstrate how improving the quality of medical technology relies on every stakeholder -- not just medical researchers and scientists -- to assess each given technology’s strengths and pitfalls. This collection also portends one of the next major issues in the ethics of medical technology: developing the requisite moral framework to accompany shifts toward patient-centred personalized healthcare.