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New Perspectives on Technology in Society

Experimentation Beyond the Laboratory

Lotte Asveld editor Ibo van de Poel editor Donna Mehos editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:9th Nov '17

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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.

"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 21st 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

ISBN: 9781138204010

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 553g

260 pages