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Dr. Leonard S. Robins died on November 9, 2009, at the age of 71, from complications following major surgery. Lenny, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, received his undergraduate degree in political science at the University of Minnesota and went on to study public affairs at the University of Michigan. After several years working in public service and research organizations, he returned to the University of Minnesota for his Ph.D., which was awarded in 1975. In 1982, he took a position in public administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he stayed until his retirement in 2003.

Programs of technology assessment are increasingly being used to attempt to control the potentially harmful impact of new technologies. Such programs typically assume that technology is an exogenous force in socioeconomic development. However, there is evidence that technological development itself is induced by socioeconomic forces. This assumption suggests that technology assessment should be focused on the inducement mechanism & not on new technological devices, aiming to perfect the social processes producing innovations. 1 Figure. Modified HA.