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Themes, arguments, predictions
HSCI E137 May 11, 2011
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The story of technology as risk: Icarus
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TechnologyAs Risk:“The Birth-mark”(1843)
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Technology as design: the labyrinth
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TechnologyAs
Design:Gattaca
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Technology as Instrument of Standardization: Brave New World
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Technology as ethicaltransgression:Frankenstein (1816)
What about these stories?
• They long predate the advent of biotech.
• They are nightmares.
• They all turn on the ambiguous figure of the technical expert.
The biotech debates as debates among areligious liberals
• What are the values on which liberals can no longer agree?– The role of the technical expert– The free market– Science for profit: a historical shift
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J. Craig Venter inBusiness Week,2004
A historical shift in the setting of science
• From academia to corporation
• And what difference does this make?