Abstract

“Everything is under control” - Reason for comfort or for alarm?

Highlights

  • The notion that scientists are primarily interested in expanding their agenda is a popular prejudice among professional engineers

  • The use of autonomous driving by individuals hardly solves any of the problems we face in society today, but it may help to sell new cars because conventional cars would appear old-fashioned

  • The promised polemical nature of the reply proves to be more a tautology: Scientific research has always had something to do with self-interest, i. e., curiosity

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Summary

Introduction

The notion that scientists are primarily interested in expanding their (research) agenda is a popular prejudice among professional engineers. The focus of TA is not on self-reference in this sense, but on societal problems in order to elaborate the knowledge relevant for decision making. In contrast, have tried to lay out an analytical heuristic to better understand the ongoing challenges posed especially by large scale projects like energy transitions and converging infrastructures.

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