The renaissance of techno-utopianism as a challenge for responsible innovation

摘要: ABSTRACTResponsible research and innovation aspires to anticipate assesses potential implications of innovations. Hence, emerging technologies are a crucial issue for this mode foresight governance. The case nanotechnology demonstrated that discourses on those increasingly shaped by techno-utopian narratives. We argue these narratives here stay, because they an expression contemporary medialization science technology. Since the RI community can neither ignore nor escape narratives, it might engage in hermeneutic reading visions as performative fiction. use desktop 3D printing demonstrate what way analysis techno-utopianism is able reveal how responsibility gets redistributed.