The primary problem in the "social control of the sciences," Nigel Calder observed, is reconciling "specialist expertise and long-range planning with the generalism of democracy in a way where ordinary citizens' wishes are heeded and experts neither bow nor dictate to administrative authority."
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Technical fouls
democratic dilemmas and technological change
by John Kurt Jacobsen
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"What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources.
He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. Students and scholars of science, technology, and society should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today."--BOOK JACKET.
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