Open AccessNarrating Converging Technologies
Author(s) -
Jacquelyne Luce
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ökologisches wirtschaften - fachzeitschrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2625-5421
pISSN - 1430-8800
DOI - 10.14512/oew.v24i4.656
Subject(s) - engineering ethics , meaning (existential) , impulse (physics) , corporate governance , process (computing) , nanotechnology , sociology , political science , epistemology , engineering , business , computer science , physics , materials science , philosophy , finance , quantum mechanics , operating system
Defining the concept of converging technologies is an ongoing process of mobilisation and meaning-making in variuos spheres. It is associated with Nanoscience and ethical debates about human enhancement. The concept may serve as an impulse for novel forms of science and innovation governance.
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