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%EVALUATING SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY 780309
Technology assessment is not the same as evaluating
science/technology. Technology assessment is a
technological process---using techniques to anticipate the
effects of using techniques. For this reason technology
assessment is not the way to transcend the technocratic
society. Technology assessment may be carried out by
technocrats who do not transcend the technocratic society,
in fact they may be the persons maintaining the
technocratic society.
The evaluation of science/technology can be carried
out only be persons who transcend the most basic
presuppositions of science and technology---who are not
participants in the scientific-technological collusions
which define who is and who is not accepted into the "in-
group" of scientists and other technically-oriented
professionals.
The traditional excommunication of those who are not
participants in the scientific-technological collusions
makes it very difficult for society to benefit from an
unbiased evaluation of science and technology. The
members of the "in-group" are biased by their collusions.
The members of the "out-group" are kept uninformed through
excommunication, and so are unable to make informed
judgments about the human meaning of the values which are
affirmed with ultimate concern by the respected scientists
and technically oriented associated professionals. The
situation is further complicated by whatever collusions
the members of the "out-group" participate in to defend
their own security-group. The complimentary collusions
create nearly impenetrable barriers to meaningful
communication which is essential to meaningful evaluation
of the techniques which are the focus of science and
technology.
Society needs educational contexts within which young
people have an opportunity to maintain their intellectual
and affective independence of the contesting collusions
which obstruct the evaluation of science and technology.
Through such independence young people will be free to
become informed enough, and collusion-free enough, to make
a meaningful evaluation of the human significance of
science and technology.
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