Futures Assessed: How Technology Assessment, Ethics and Think Tanks Make Sense of an Unknown Future

摘要: “Zeitdiagnoses” such as reflexive modernization (Beck et al. 1994) call attention to the fact that our societies monitor their technological future in an ambivalent way: They keep one eye on benefits or innovations, and risks dangers other. But it might be worthwhile taking a closer look at this ambivalence, for also sets ground division of labour. Despite fuzzy intricate nature boundaries separate those social domains which bright side emerging technologies is up speculation, from unintended consequences are subjected deliberation, two different realms can distinguished along lines societal demands they address.