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Technology guidelines us as much as laws do. It patterns the legal, cultural, and ethical environments where we act. Every time we mix a road, drive an automobile, or go directly to the doctor, we post to the silent power of technology. Yet, most of the time, the effect of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by residents and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel scientific pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, contributes to a sophisticated interplay among technology, ethics, and individual rights. Innovations like pesticides or GMOs can reduce being hungry, but can also cause sudden injury to people and the surroundings. Advances in biotechnology have given us tools to tinker with life itself, leading some to worry that individual dignity and even individual aspect are under hazard. But despite many reasons for extreme caution, we continue to march heedlessly into ethically stressed waters. As Jasanoff ranges across these and other styles, she challenges the normal assumption that technology can be an apolitical and amoral push. Technology, she masterfully shows, can warp the meaning of democracy and citizenship unless we carefully consider how to escort its power alternatively than let ourselves be shaped by it.
