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Constructive Technology Assessment and Socio-Technical Scenarios.
Arie Rip,Haico te Kulve +1 more
- pp 49-70
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Rip and Te Kulve as mentioned in this paper used socio-technical scenarios in the study of nanotechnology, and proposed two scenario construction frameworks that take into account complex and often overlooked socio technical dynamics CTA scenarios can accordingly serve as "useful fictions" for strategic purposes as well as for modulating ongoing socio technical change.Abstract:
PREFACE: Since the 1980’s, Rip has been instrumental in developing and applying an approach to broaden the scope of participants and considerations that go into technological developments that is known as Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA) A number of organizations have employed CTA, including the Rathenau Institute (formerly, the Netherlands Office of Technology Assessment) Since 2005, the Dutch national nanotechnology consortium, NanoNed, has under Rip’s coordination included CTA as a program component In this chapter, Rip and Te Kulve suggest that because many nanotechnology applications remain little more than promises, studying their implications amounts to an exercise in “social science fiction” To address this challenge, they employ socio-technical scenarios Scenarios are a well-established foresight method that are gaining wide use in the study of nanotechnology (Turk, Chapter 8; Kosal, Chapter 12) Here, Rip and Te Kulve, are interested in linking theory and practice and thus describe two scenario construction frameworks that take into account complex and often overlooked socio-technical dynamics CTA scenarios can accordingly serve as “useful fictions” for strategic purposes as well as for modulating ongoing socio-technical changeread more
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