Why the Future Doesn't Come from Machines: Unfounded Prophecies and the Design of Naturoids

Autor/in	Negrotti, Massimo
Titel	Why the Future Doesn't Come from Machines: Unfounded Prophecies and the Design of Naturoids
Quelle	In: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 28 (2008) 4, S.289-298 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-4676
DOI	10.1177/0270467608319636
Schlagwörter	Technology; Simulation; Models; Observation; Science Education; Design + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Technologie; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Analogiemodell; Beobachtung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	Technological imagination and actual technological achievements have always been two very different things. Sudden and unpredictable events always seem to intervene between our visions regarding possible futures and the subsequent concrete realizations. Thus, our ideas and projects are continually being redirected. In the field of "naturoids"--that is, artificial systems designed to simulate certain features of natural ones--the above-mentioned tendency is particularly frequent and illuminating, giving all prophecies a flavor of fiction rather than of reliable technological forecast. The dream of reproducing complete natural systems--man included--by means of technological strategies clashes with the "nature" of artificial objects and also with that of natural exemplars. The only certainty is that the future will exhibit growing rates of variety and heterogeneity, and we cannot know, from our present standpoint, what this will imply for our species, or, at least, for our cultures. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10