“I use ‘disruptive’ in both its good and bad connotations. Disruptive scientific and technological progress is not to me inherently good or inherently evil. But its arc is for us to shape. Technology’s progress is furthermore in my judgment unstoppable. But it is quite incorrect that it unfolds inexorably according to its own internal logic and the laws of nature.”
Biography
Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project, 2008–2009
Current Affiliation: Head of the Secretariat, Rountable on Sustainable Biofuels, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Energy Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
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