Intelligently Steering Toward More Communitarian Technological Societies
Intelligently Steering Toward More Communitarian Technological Societies
This chapter applies the intelligent trial-and-error framework developed by Edward Woodhouse and David Collingridge to technologies that impact community life. The framework has generally been used to analyse technologies with environmental, physiological, and financial – rather than psychocultural – risks. This chapter explores how technological innovation related to driverless cars and social robots would proceed if important decision makers were to take their potential social and communal risks seriously. Next, intelligent trial-and-error is proposed as a set strategies to make attempts to deploy communitarian technologies more effective, considering the cases of residential development and cooperative grocery stores. Finally, this chapter examines the barriers to getting intelligent trial-and-error applied more of the time and to already existing, rather than only emerging, technologies.
Keywords: Governance of technology, Psychocultural risk, Intelligent trial and error, Woodhouse, Collingridge, Driverless cars, Social robots, Cooperatives, New urbanism
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