Emerging Technological Risk Underpinning the Risk of Technology Innovation /

• Main Authors: Anderson, Stuart (Author), Felici, Massimo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Management.; Industrial management.; Philosophy.; Computer system failures.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Innovation/Technology Management.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Philosophy of Technology.

Classes of socio-technical hazards allow a characterization of the risk in technology innovation and clarify the mechanisms underpinning emergent technological risk. Emerging Technological Risk provides an interdisciplinary account of risk in socio-technical systems including hazards which highlight...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Risks, Technologies and Societies
• 2. Unbounded Technology
• 3. Technological Evolution
• 4. Social Connectivity
• 5. Hardening Social Links
• 6. Emerging Technological Risk.