Volume 36 Issue 3 (2020)
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Editorial
In this, our third issue with Pluto Journals, we have two papers that express reservations about the value of mode 2 and the triple helix. Mode 2 built on an…
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Embedded research in rehabilitation engineering
We examine concepts of new knowledge creation and embedded research in a case study on the i-limb, the world’s first commercial prosthetic hand with five independently powered digits. Although the…
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The impossibility of the triple helix
A dynamic model that distinguishes between slow and fast processes shows that a triple helix model is impossible as a tool for promoting interdependencies among science, industry and government. We…
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The repression of mètis within digital organizations
Numerous organizations are placing great emphasis on such techniques as evidence-based protocols to automation and artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of improving efficiency and maximizing profitability. Such instrumental techniques…
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Jonathan Ives, Michael Dunn and Alan Cribb (eds) Empirical Ethics: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
In 1968, the philosopher Martin Heidegger noted: Thinking does not bring knowledge as do the sciences. Thinking does not produce usable practicalwisdom. Thinking does not solve the riddles of the…
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Nolen Gertz, Nihilism and Technology
At times uncanny, yet thoroughly unsettling, Nolan Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology is an unquestionable synthesis of Nietzschean philosophy of nihilism brought to bear on our often overlooked uses and co-construction…
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Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, Re-engineering Humanity
The core of the book is whether smart technologies could re-engineer humanity and make people act like simple machines. The authors critically analyse current trends in internet technology, which make…
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John A. Mathews, Global Green Shift
The speed and volume of Far-Eastern – especially Chinese – innovation in business and technology have left Western economies reeling. Western scholars of innovation have also been struggling to keep…
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Sven Ove Hansson (ed.) The Ethics of Technology: Methods and Approaches
In the years since the publication of this volume, the field of ethics of technology has become central to public debate. A prominent example is the debate around the development…
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Virginia Dignum, Responsible Artificial Intelligence: How to Develop and Use AI in a Responsible Way
The first decades of the twenty-first century are marked by artificial intelligence entering the mainstream of public attention. The question is not whether AI will impact various domains of human…