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Previous studies have shown that techno-scientific promises play key roles in the process of emergence of new technologies. The role of promises in the emergence of old technologies when they were young has, however, been overlooked. The main objective of this paper is to fill this gap. We draw on the concept of 'regime of historicity', defined as an organizational structure given societies impose on the experience of time and articulate the present, the past, and the future. Using four case studies, we argue that the way techno-scientific promises align with regimes of historicity is crucial. This paper shows that promising in the presentist regime using the modernist frame of innovation (creative destruction) raises many problems Instead, the building of horizons of hope may rest on promises based on processes of collective experimentation.

Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people frustrated by smart machines? Computers don't fit people. People think in terms of comparisons, stories, and analogies, and seek feedback, whereas computers are based on a fundamental design that does not fit with analogical and feedback thinking. They impose a binary, an all-or-nothing, approach to everything. Moreover, the social world and institutions that have developed around computer technology hide and reinforce the lack of alignment between computers and people. This book suggests a solution: we do not have to accept the way things are now and work around the bad social and technical design of computers. Rather, it proposes a diverse, distributed, critical discussion of how to design and build both computer technology and its social institutions.

Brazil has been standing out as one of the worst places on Earth to be during a global health crisis, especially for those whose struggle for basic humanitarian rights is already routine. How do the political environment and historical inequalities in countries like Brazil affect the ways in which public policy and technologies are framed as responses for the pandemic crisis? In this paper we aim to present the sequence of actions and omissions in the fight against sars-cov2 in Brazil, concentrating on measures based on the use of digital technologies and the sociotechnical arrangements unfolding in materialities that give shape to such measures. We will also discuss possible repercussions of the widespread adoption of surveillance technologies as a quick fix to the effects of the pandemic. Our focus is to explain how the materiality of the virus and its political as well as territorial effects are combined with digital technologies as responses (or lack of them) in the fields of healthcare, education, communication and labour in the context of the Global South.

This book is an attempt to provide a systematic interpretation of Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics in light of one of the most important, interesting and debated questions of the present age: the question concerning the role played by science and technology in shaping our civilization. The author argues that this question lies at the heart of Gadamer's thought, and that such an approach to his philosophy might help to overcome some inveterate interpretive prejudices, like, for example, the idea of Gadamer as an anti-scientific and politically authoritarian thinker. In order to clarify these p

1. Introduction : movement redirected by resistance -- 2. Mobilising a different future -- 3. The atom : bombs and power -- 4. Environment, safety and sustainability -- 5. Ten propositions on learning from resistance -- 6. The "bytes" of mainframes, PC and social media -- 7. Public opinion and its discontents -- 8. Genes, biotechnology and genomics -- 9. Some further observations on resistance.

Url: http://josc.selcuk.edu.tr/article/view/1075000403 ; In the attempts to understand human action and thought there are two contradictory perspectives: one is the human centered explanation and interpretation, the other is the techno-scientific con-ception. Human centered analysis of action has been mainly carried on the basis of three distinct theoretical frameworks: structuralism, interactionism and the synthesis of there two approaches by the way of emphasizing the role of a dialectical process between actor and structure. Techno-scientific approach to action shows a similarity with the structural explanation in the sense that both consider action without reference to the individual actors, but it emphasizes technology and science as constitutive för action as opposed to the structuralist preoccupation with social or cul-tural structures. Here, it is insisted that any social conception of action is incapable of under-standing global processes that are effective over the daily life of individuals. Meaning in daily activities is seen as a techno-scientific prerequisite rather than having a cultural, social, interac-tional or individual basis. Homogenization of lifestyles all over the world is giyen way by the dominance of technology over the economic, cultural and political spheres. Therelbre, in this study we attempt to show an essential need ta question validity and relevance of the basic social scientific concepts such as social as a process, background, integration, development, action, environment, context, meaning, interaction; normative conditioning of action; culture; East and West. ; İnsan eyleminin ve düşüncesinin, insan merkezli açıklamaları ve yorumları ile tekno-bilimsel açıdan ele alınması gerçekliğin anlaşılmasında birbiriyle çatışan iki bakış açısını temsil eder. Eylemin insan merkezli çözümlemesi başlıca üç farklı kuramsal çerçeve temelinde yürütülmektedir: yapısalcılık, etkileşimcilik ve eylem ve yapı arsamda diyalektik bir sürecin rolünü vurgulama yoluyla bu ikisinin bir sentezi. Eyleme tekno-bilimsel bir yaklaşım, eylemi birey aktörlere göndermede bulunmadan ele alması açısından yapısal açıklamayla benzerlik gösterir, ancak ilgilerini toplumsal ve/veya kültürel yapılar üzerinde yoğunlaştıran yapısalcılığın tersine teknoloji ve bilimi eylem için oluşturucu olarak değerlendirir. Burada, herhangi bir toplumsal eylem anlayışının bireyin gündelik yaşamında etkin olan küresel süreçlerin anlaşılmasında yetersiz kaldığı ileri sürülmektedir. Gündelik etkinliklerdeki anlam kültürel, toplumsal, etkileşimsel veya bireysel bir temele sahip olmaktan çok tekno-bilimsel bir gereklilik olarak görülmektedir. Ekonomik, kültürel ve siyasal alanlar üzeinde teknolojinin egemenliği dünya genelinde yaşam tarzlarının türdeşleşmesine yol açmıştır. Bu nedenle bu çalışmada; bir süreç, arkaplan, bütünleşme, gelişme, eylem, çevre, bağlam, anlam ve etkileşim olarak toplum; eylemin normative koşullanması; kültür, Doğu ve Batı gibi toplumbiliminin temel kavramlarının geçerlilik ve alakalılığının köklü bir sorgulanmaya tabi tutulması gerkliliği ortaya konulmaktadır.

The article aims to map the process of transformation in the Korean 'developmental state' which is evolving into a new 'techno-scientific state'. In the past, the Korean 'developmental state' directed national economic development by decisively controlling the entire financial system. However, after successfully leading economic change for half a century, the role of the Korean state appears to be drastically diminished.The literature that deals with this issue tends to focus on the demise of the 'developmental state' and discusses the 'post-developmental minimalist state'. However, it clearly ignores the strategic role of the state in creating a distinct 'techno-scientific' ethos, which has been critical in enhancing Korea's industrial competitiveness in the face of the established Japanese and the emerging Chinese challenges.The hypothesis is that the linkages between techno-scientific and techno-industrial progress can be firmly established only by state power because (a) market forces can push innovation in the same or similar techno-industrial sector but not in a distinct techno-scientific sphere; (b) high uncertainty and high-risk factors constrain the ability of market actors to invent new techno-scientific frontiers.Theoretically, this article is sceptical about the rationale of the neo-liberal 'minimalist state' and argues for an enhanced but transformed role of the state in supporting the techno-scientific regime formation. It provides empirical evidence from the experiences of the transforming Korean state. This article argues that the vast policy experience of the Korean State in engineering the 'economic miracle on the Han River' can be utilised to establish a distinct techno-scientific regime that can help create a new techno-industrial sector.