Parliaments and technology
Subtitle: the development of technology assessment in Europe
By: edited by Norman J. Vig and Herbert Paschen ; foreword by Lord Kennet
Contributors: Vig, Norman J; Paschen, Herbert
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Technology assessment -- Europe; Technology and state -- Europe
Description: "Parliaments and Technology explores an issue critically important to the practice of democracy everywhere: How do citizens and elected officials assess the opportunities and costs of new technologies that may profoundly impact their societies future? For example, what are the social and moral implications of gene patents, reproductive technology, cloning and genetic engineering or of virtually unlimited access to information?

Technology assessment has become one of the most important methodologies for aiding legislatures in analyzing and deliberating such questions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index