摘要
For all the individual, societal, and global benefits scientific and technological advancements have brought, they have also introduced a great many socioeconomic, political, and ethical problems—both anticipated and wholly unforeseen.Following on the first volume’s focus on improving the public value of science and producing usable science for better decision-making, this volume of The Rightful Place of Science: New Tools for Science Policy addresses the urgent need for evaluating and governing emerging technologies. Importantly, the book’s authors also provide potential avenues for doing so, producing an essential resource for governments, funders, communities, and researchers around the world.“The articles in this volume convincingly urge the need for ‘anticipatory governance’ with early and often engagement to ensure that R&D policies and investments are most efficiently directed at desired and equitable outcomes. The focus on technology development and assessment is particularly timely with a flood of interest in technological development for climate adaptation and mitigation and to prevent a next pandemic. These issues are ripe for participatory and real-time technology assessments to ensure investments are directed at those innovations most likely to be useful to and actually used by the public. Lessons can be learned from the diverse array of examples presented, from the regulation of new biomedical technologies, to public perceptions about driverless vehicles, to options for creating an asteroid detection system for the Earth.” —From the foreword by Angela Bednarek
