Langbeschreibung
Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resource depletion. Is the future an object of design? This question can bring together and divide policy makers and it will interest also the scientists and engineers who labor under the demand to deliver that future.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Debating the Program 1. On the Road to Hermeneutic Technology Assessment - A Historic-Systematic Reconstruction; 2. Hermeneutic Technology Assessment - Why It Is Needed and What It Might Be; 3. Future Conversations - A Topical Exchange; 4. The Questions of Hermeneutic TA - Towards a Toolbox Part II: Theory and Context 5. Technology in the Imagination of Society - A Conversation; 6. On "Not Having a Future"; 7. On Profane Futures and Profane Futures Literacy; 8. Precautionary or Proactionary - A Debate Part III: Exemplary Explorations 9. Prototyping Futures - Towards a Hermeneutics of Artefacts and Technologies; 10. The Hermeneutic Perspective on Modeling in Technology Assessment; 11. Machine Hermeneutics