Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance

Summary

Emerging technologies present a challenging but fascinating set of ethical, legal and regulatory issues. The articles selected for this volume provide a broad overview of the most influential historical and current thinking in this area and show that existing frameworks are often inadequate to address new technologies - such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, synthetic biology and robotics - and innovative new models are needed. This collection brings together invaluable, innovative and often complementary approaches for overcoming the unique challenges of emerging technology ethics and governance.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Foundations

1. Langdon Winner. "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus 109.1 (1980): 121-136 (excerpt from ‘The Whale and the Reactor’

2. Arie Rip. "Introduction of New Technology: Making Use of Recent Insights from Sociology and Economics of Technology." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 7.4 (1995): 417-432

3. Bill Joy. "Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us." Wired, (April 2000)

4. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. "A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists." AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita, (2001) 77-83.

Part 2: Ethics & Public Policy

5. Braden Allenby. "The Industrial Ecology of Emerging Technologies." Journal of Industrial Ecology 13.2 (2009): 168-183

6. Amy Gutmann. "The Ethics of Synthetic Biology: Guiding Principles for Emerging Technologies." Hastings Center Report 41.4 (2011): 17-22.

7. Gary Marchant, Ann Meyer, Megan Scanlon. ‘Integrating Social and Ethical Concerns into Regulatory Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies’, 11 Minnesota J. Law Science & Technology 345-363 (2010)

8. Richard Owen, Phil Macnaghten and Jack Stilgoe. "Responsible Research and Innovation: From Science in Society to Science for Society, with Society." Science and Public Policy 39.6 (2012): 751-760.

9. Alfred Nordmann. Discussion Paper: Responsible Innovation, the Art and Craft of Anticipation." Journal of Responsible Innovation (2014): Vol. 1-1, pp 87-98

Part 3: Public Perception and Participation

10. Paul Slovic. "Perception of Risk." Science 236.4799 (April 1987): 280-285

11. Brian Wynne. "Unruly Technology: Practical Rules, Impractical Discourses and Public Understanding." Social Studies of Science 18.1 (1988): 147-167

12. Sheila Jasanoff. "Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science," Minerva 41.3 (2003): 223-244.

13. Richard H. Thaler and Cass Sunstein. "Libertarian Paternalism." The American Economic Review (2003), Vol. 93, No. 2: 175-179

14. Michael D, Cobb and Jane Macoubrie. "Public Perceptions About Nanaotechnology: Risks, Benefits and Trust." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 6.4 (2004): 395-405.

Part 4: Risk Assessment and the Precautionary Principle

15. Per Sandin. "Dimensions of the precautionary principle." Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal 5.5 (1999): 889-907

16. David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz. "Real-time Technology Assessment." Technology in Society 24.1 (2002): 93-109

17. Jennifer Kuzma et al. "An Integrated Approach to Oversight Assessment for Emerging Technologies." Risk Analysis 28.5 (2008): 1197-1220.

18. Fritz Allhoff. Risk, "Precaution and Emerging Technologies." Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology 3.2 (2009): 1-27.

Part 5: Regulation

19. Lyria Bennett Moses. "Why Have a Theory of Law and Technological Change?" Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech 8.2 (2007): 589-606

20. Renn, Ortwin and Mihail C. Roco. "Nanotechnology and the Need for Risk Governance." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 8.2 (2006): 153-191

21. Gregory N. Mandel. "Regulating Emerging Technologies." Law, Innovation and Technology 1.1 (2009): 75-92.

22. Gurumurthy Ramachandran, et al. "Recommendations for Oversight of Nanobiotechnology: Dynamic Oversight for Complex and Convergent Technology." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 13.4 (2011): 1345-1371

23. Christopher Bosso. "The Enduring Embrace: The Regulatory Ancien Régime and Governance of Nanomaterials in the U.S." Nanotechnology Law & Business 9.4 (2013): 381-392

24. Wolf S.M., Jones C.M. Designing Oversight for Nanomedicine Research in Human Subjects: Systematic Analysis of Exceptional Oversight for Emerging Technologies. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 2011; 13(4):1449-65.

Part 6: Coordination

25. Francis Fukuyama,. "Gene Regime." Foreign Policy 129 (2002): 57-63.

26. Mihail C. Roco. "Possibilities for Global Governance of Converging Technologies." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 10.1 (2008): 11-29

27. Diana M. Bowman and Graeme A. Hodge. "Counting on Codes: an Examination of Transnational Codes as a Regulatory Governance Mechnanism for Nanotechnologies." Regulation & Governance 3.2 (2009): 145-164.

28. Gary E. Marchant & Wendell Wallach. "Governing the Governance of Emerging Technologies", in Gary E. Marchant, Kenneth W. Abbott & Braden Allenby (eds), Innovative Governance Models for Emerging Technolgies, (2013) 136-152

Editor(s) Bio

Gary E. Marchant is the Regents' Professor of Law at Arizona State University, USA. Wendell Wallach is a lecturer and consultant at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, USA.