The Humanities and the Shaping of Social Futures

The importance of democratic public participation in the planning process – p...

The future social value of nanoscale science and technology (NST) has been re...

Concerns about the social sustainability of emerging technologies are identif...

Published at : http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/chris-groves/happiness...

Technological societies extend the reach of their activities – and the conseq...

Argues that public policy and business alike see public attitudes to new tech...

I argue here that discussions of our responsibilities to future generations m...

Have we learned yet what it means to live in a technological society? For wel...

This paper aims to provide a clearer understanding of the role which corporat...

Concerns about the social sustainability of emerging technologies are identif...

In relation to a set of political responses to AGW, I argue that the values w...

Notes for a lecture delivered at Cardiff University on 11 November 2009 as pa...

This paper (given at a workshop in Aarhus in November 2006) considers the roo...

This essay from 1999 was originally published alongside others in PLI (http:/...

I propose that a key avenue of research in the humanities and social science ...

As the number of intrinsically unknowable technologically produced risks glob...

To understand novelty, we arguably require a concept of the future which does...

Alongside the development of science and technology in industrialised societi...

It is argued that the social significance of nanotechnologies should be under...

What impacts do large infrastructure projects have on communities? Drawing on...