Paradigm – The Techno-scientific Paradigm: The Ethical Control of the Technological Progress
Résumé
The techno-scientific paradigm will be the subject of a historical review since its appearance in the 1970s. It has allowed major innovations, such as the Internet, to flourish for more than 20 years, also raising managerial and political questions about the ethical control of technical progress. Technoscience enables the merging of skills on a large scale and the optimization of productivity. The technosciences are accused of resting on a system that alienates workers and on a travesty of the meaning of the history of technology. Technocracy is a form of social organization advocated by engineers, who see it as a way to control the population with a view to accelerating research & development. Technological ideologies accompany innovations, with a view to instrumentalizing technical imaginations that trivialize innovation and make it easier to obtain funding. The age of technosciences has left a major imprint in the history of contemporary societies, allowing the emergence of many technologies.