Governing Future Technologies

1. Reinventing a Laboratory: Nanotechnology as a Resource for Organizational Change
Martina Merz

2. Negotiating Nano: From Assessing Risks to Disciplinary Transformations
Monika Kurath

3. “Nanoscience is 100 Years Old.” The Defensive Appropriation of the Nanotechnology Discourse within the Disciplinary Boundaries of Crystallography
Christian Kehrt, Peter Schüßler

4. From Nano-Convergence to NBIC-Convergence: “The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it”
Joachim Schummer

5. Deliberating Visions: The Case of Human Enhancement in the Discourse on Nanotechnology and Convergence
Christopher Coenen

6. Visual Dynamics: The Defuturization of the Popular “Nano-Discourse” as an Effect of Increasing Economization
Andreas Lösch

7. Digital Matters: Video Games and the Cultural Transcoding of Nanotechnology
Colin Milburn

8. Emerging De Facto Agendas Surrounding Nanotechnology: Two Cases Full of Contingencies, Lock-outs, and Lock-ins
Arie Rip, Marloes Amerom

9. The Risk Debate on Nanoparticles: Contribution to a Normalisation of the Science/Society Relationship?
Armin Grunwald, Peter Hocke

10. Futures Assessed: How Technology Assessment, Ethics and Think Tanks Make Sense of an Unknown Future
Mario Kaiser

11. Why Enrol Citizens in the Governance of Nanotechnology?
Alain Kaufmann, Claude Joseph, Catherine El-Bez, Marc Audétat

12. Toward Anticipatory Governance: The Experience with Nanotechnology
Risto Karinen, David H. Guston

13. Which Ethics for (of) the Nanotechnologies?
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Jackie Leach Scully

14. Lure of the “Yes”: The Seductive Power of Technoscience
Alfred Nordmann, Astrid Schwarz

15. The Time of Science: Deliberation and the “New Governance” of Nanotechnology
Matthew Kearnes

16. Converging Technologies – Diverging Reflexivities? Intellectual Work in Knowledge-Risk-Media-Audit Societies
Sabine Maasen

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, general, Sociology, History of Science, Ethics, Philosophy of Science