Insatiable curiosity
innovation in a fragile future
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Word Count
44,750 words, Guess
Page Count
179 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveinsatiablecurios0000nowo
- Internet Archiveinsatiablecurios00nowo
- ISBN-139780262141031
- ISBN-100262141035
- Goodreads3275369
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- Library of Congress Control Number2007048462
- OCLC Control Number182573648
- Better World Books9780262141031
- Open LibraryOL16987308M
Classifications
- DDC303.48/3
- LCCQ175.5 .N68513 2008
- LCCQ175.5.N68513 2008
Description
"Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science needs autonomy to cultivate this kind of untrammeled curiosity; innovation, however, responds to the needs and desires of society. Innovation, argues influential European science studies scholar Helga Nowotny, tames the passion of science, harnessing it to produce "deliverables." Science brings uncertainties; innovation successfully copes with them. Society calls for both the passion for knowledge and its taming. This ambivalence, Nowotny contends, is an inevitable result of modernity." "In Insatiable Curiosity, Nowotny explores the strands of the often unexpected intertwining of science and technology and society. Uncertainty arises, she writes, from an oversupply of knowledge. The quest for innovation is society's response to the uncertainties that come with scientific and technological achievement. Our dilemma is how to balance the immense but unpredictable potential of science and technology with our acknowledgment that not everything that can be done should be done. We can escape the old polarities of utopias and dystopias, writes Nowotny, by accepting our ambivalence - as a legacy of modernism and a positive cultural resource."--Jacket.
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