New Perspectives on Technology in Society: Experimentation Beyond the Laboratory

ISBN-13: 9781138204010 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 260 str.

Ibo van de Poel;Lotte Asveld;Donna Mehos

Opis

The development and introduction of a new technology to society can be viewed as an experimental process, full of uncertainties, which are only gradually reduced as the technology is employed. Unexpected developments may trigger an experimental process in which society must find new ways to deal with the uncertainties posed. This book explores how the experimental perspective determines what ethical issues new technologies raise and how it helps morally evaluate their introduction. Expert contributors highlight the uncertainties that accompany the process, identify the social and ethical challenges they give rise to, and propose strategies to manage them. Focusing on the introduction of new technologies and experimentation as ways to perceive new developments and changing contexts, a key theme of the book is how to approach the moral issues raised by new technology and understand the role of experimentation in exploring these matters.

Recenzje

"Technologies released into the public domain are expected to be safe and reliable. Experiments, by definition, are ventures into the unknown. How thus can technologies in society be responsibly conceptualized as social experiments? New Perspectives on Technology in Society is a major step to help discerning ethical issues and possibilities of moral learning during the experimental introduction of new technologies into society. The contributions in this excellent volume show on how carefully planned social experiments can denote processes in which ignorance and surprise are creatively used for deliberate and systematic learning. Given the unavoidable character of the experimental nature of novel technologies in the 21^st century (from self-driving cars to synthetic biology or new medical tests) the studies in this volume could not be timelier." - Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and University of Jena, Germany

Spis treści

Introduction Ibo van de Poel, Donna Mehos, and Lotte Asveld, editors Chapter 1: Control in Scientific and Practical Experiments Peter Kroes Chapter 2: The Diversity of Experimentation in the Experimenting Society Christopher Ansell and Martin Bartenberger Chapter 3 Moral Experimentation with New Technology Ibo van de Poel Chapter 4 The Theatrical Debate: Experimenting with Technologies on Stage Frank Kupper Chapter 5 Social Learning in the Bioeconomy: The Ecover Case Lotte Asveld and Dirk Stemerding Chapter 6 Cognitive Enhancement: A Social Experiment With Technology Nicole A Vincent and Emma A. Jane Chapter 7 Living a Real-World Experiment: Post-Fukushima Imaginaries and Spatial Practices of "Containing the Nuclear" Ulrike Felt Chapter 8 "Dormant Parasites": Testing beyond the Laboratory in Uganda’s Malaria Control Program René Umlauf Chapter 9 Experimenting with ICT Technologies in Youth Care: Jeugdzorg in the Netherlands Ben Kokkeler and Bertil Brandse Chapter 10 Adversarial Risks in Social Experiments with New Technologies Wolter Pieters and Francien Duschesne