Helga Nowotny Libros

El hombre siempre ha estado fascinado por el futuro y lo desconocido. La fuerza motriz de este empuje es una curiosidad insaciable por el sinnúmero de fronteras a explorar y por la extraordinaria disponibilidad de medios a nuestra disposición. Nowotny parte de esta hipótesis para analizar el papel de la ciencia moderna en nuestra sociedad, donde investigadores y opinión publica se presentan como protagonistas de una confrontación que a veces toma el tono de un enfrentamiento real: si la investigación es por naturaleza impulsora de la innovación, la sociedad tiende a menudo a identificar esa innovación con el concepto más oscuro de lo desconocido, cargado de miedos y fantasmas. De ahí la petición, a veces la imposición, de mecanismos de control que restrinjan el camino de la ciencia. ¿Pero quizá no signifique eso distorsionar la idea misma de la innovación y del futuro como la posibilidad de lo inesperado? La curiosidad insaciable ofrece una finísima herramienta interpretativa, indispensable para orientarse en la dialéctica y conservación que caracterizan el inicio del nuevo milenio.

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care. As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms, robots and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their predictions affect our agency, while at the same time having the courage to embrace the uncertainty of the future.

* A major contribution to the study of time and its relation to modernity* This brilliant study has already become a classic in Germany. .

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(3) The classical system-environment model, according to which the adaptation of a system to its environment is controlled externally and according to which the adaptation of the system occurs in the course of a learning process, is replaced by a model of systemic closure.

Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead.

An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces.

The interaction between new forms of biological life and new forms of social life in modern democracies.

Science has development from a self-evident public good to being highly valued in other contexts for different reasons: strengthening the economic competitiveness and, especially in high-tech fields, as a financial investment for future gains. This has been accompanied by a shift from public to private funding with intellectual property rights gaining importance. But in contemporary democracies citizens have also begun to voice their concerns about science and technology related risks, demanding greater participation in decision-making and in the setting of research priorities. The book examines the legal issues and responses vis-à-vis these transformations of the nature of public science. It discusses their normative content as well as the inherent limitations of the law in meeting these challenges.

Helga Nowotny ist Vize-Präsidentin des Europäischen Forschungsrates und Professor emeritus der ETH Zürich. Sie gilt als die ›grande dame‹ der Wissenschaftsforschung in Europa.