Knowledge politics and new converging technologies: a social epistemological perspective.
The “new converging technologies” refers to the prospect of advancing the human condition by the integrated study and application of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and the cognitive sciences - or “NBIC”. In recent years, it has loomed large, albeit with somewhat different emph...
| Publicado en: | Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 7 - 35 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2009
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