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Erschienen in: NanoEthics 1/2017

17.03.2017 | Introduction

Visioneering Socio-Technical Innovations — a Missing Piece of the Puzzle

verfasst von: Martin Sand, Christoph Schneider

Erschienen in: NanoEthics | Ausgabe 1/2017

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Let us begin by introducing an example with a view to elaborating the concept of ‘visioneering’ that has been adopted from the historian Patrick McCray and forms the backdrop to this special section. Ray Kurzweil, who could be considered a prototypical ‘visioneer’, includes the following rather breathtaking passage at the beginning of his book ‘The Age of Spiritual Machines’:
The twenty-first century will be different. The human species, along with the computational technology it created, will be able to solve age-old problems of need, if not desire, and will be in a position to change the nature of mortality in a postbiological future. […] The pace of change is accelerating and has been since the inception of invention […]. The result will be far greater transformations in the first two decades of the twenty-first century than we saw in the entire twentieth century. [1]
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Vorheriger Artikel Ethical Assessment of Emerging Technologies. Appraising the Moral Plausibility of Technological Visions
Nächster Artikel Guiding Orientation Processes as Possibility to Give Direction for System Innovations—the Use of Resilience and Sustainability in the Energy Transition

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Fußnoten
1
Kurzweil (like many other utopians) has paradoxical opinions regarding this question. Does the revolution need to be pursued or is it inevitable? He does not let us know (p. 130). Sometimes, as in the title of the prologue, he speaks of its ‘inexorable emergence’, while other times he suggests that there is a certain ‘freedom in design’.
 
2
‘To put this another way, inventors and corporate research departments create not only products but also compelling narratives about how these new devices will fit into everyday life. They need to do this to get venture capital, and companies need to market such scenarios to get a return on investment.’ [47] See also Beckert on the importance of fictional expectations and narratives of the future for capitalist dynamics [45].
 
3
It is probably necessary to consider their relationship with the counterculture of Silicon Valley in order to understand Kurzweil’s and Drexler’s quasi-spiritual aspirations and this distinctive community. The aforementioned counterculture must be seen as a set of beliefs in liberalism and free markets and as a ‘spiritual’ faith in information technologies [13]. See also [48]. Note that McCray explicitly advocates that the ‘visioneer’ concept be transferred to other fields of emerging technologies and mentions geo-engineering, synthetic biology, fusion energy, and cloud computing as appropriate examples [10].
 
5
We are reminded of this by a remarkable anecdote in McCray’s book (p. 2). While Gerard O’Neill and others were discussing space travel at California’s first Space Day in August 1977, laid-off workers outside the Museum of Science and Industry in L.A. waved signs proclaiming ‘Jobs on Earth, Not in Space’.
 
6
For in-depth discussions of the different ways in which futures are made, see [49] and [39].
 
7
In some cases we may think of visions as ‘boundary objects‘or ‘media‘[25, 26]
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Visioneering Socio-Technical Innovations — a Missing Piece of the Puzzle
verfasst von
Martin Sand
Christoph Schneider
Publikationsdatum
17.03.2017
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
NanoEthics / Ausgabe 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1871-4757
Elektronische ISSN: 1871-4765
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-017-0293-6

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