Volume 89 (2022), Edition 1

This article sketches out the approach of ‘Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conflicts’. TASC is conceived as a heuristic tool to help systematically bring into focus societal conflicts and debates that became anchored to technologies without...

This paper refers to two new approaches to conceive the relationship between technological innovation and society as one of anchoring: The TASC concept (Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conflicts) aims to show how societal conflicts are anchored...

The article discusses presentations of nuclear power in the Deutsches Mu- seum in Munich from the 1950s to the 1980s. The discussion serves a dou- ble purpose in that it discusses the museum’s history in its own right, with particular attention to...

This article shows how fundamental debates on both human obsolescence in the form of vanishing human exceptionalism and of technological unem- ployment were anchored to the emerging technology of artificial intelligence (AI). Through this...