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June 18, 2007
Nanomachines, politics and peace in Palestine
Anders Sandberg writes a discomforting article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.
In Tell Me Your Politics and I Can Tell You What You Think About Nanotechnology Sandberg notes that people do not decide whether a new technology is risky or not based on fact, but rather on emotion and cultural assumptions. Public deliberation and political decisionmaking about emerging technologies is always going to be fundamentally non-rational.
Anders Sandberg points out that we should aim at emphasis on principles rather than ends in the discussions, and the need for thicker debates in emerging technologies.
Sandberg also discusses the notion of how productive mediation (as for the Middle east conflict) can be done on emerging technologies, which is further elaborated in the Eudoxa policy study On Idea Futures
Andra bloggar om: etik, palestina, teknik, politik, samhälle, nanoteknik, risker
Posted by Waldemar at June 18, 2007 12:55 PM