The dynamics of how an emergent technology or a technological cluster affects societal practices are far from being clearly understood, and yet they can be argued to be at the very core of any forward-looking activity involving social aspects.
A more interesting question might be, "Why was I in the minority in my last career, and why am I in the majority now?" If Mr. Tierney can shed light on that question, perhaps we will understand the clustering of common political and societal outlooks (and the effects of this clustering) a little better.
These overlapping topics could be clustered around various societal problems (e.g. food security, sustainable consumption, globalisation, social conditions for human enhancement, children's obesity) and technology innovations (e.g. ICT developments such as avatars, methane hydrate, crowd sourcing, service robots).
Whenever a cluster addressed too few societal trends, it was eliminated.
More recently, Van der Have and Rubalcaba [19] clustered the social innovation literature in 4 domains, but whereas some appear to be rather homogenous (e.g. those around the domains of 'community psychology' and 'creativity research'), the cluster of 'social and societal changes' where we locate ourselves is still rather heterogeneous in itself.
Chronic rhinosinusitis is a disease cluster with a significant societal burden, and despite extensive research efforts, has an unknown pathophysiology.
We have utilised the logic of Bayesian and frequentist hypothesis testing to examine what societal features can explain the observed language clusters.
Fifteen components were thus defined and grouped into four clusters; scoring directions were defined from a societal perspective[ 68].
Finally, under the sixth cluster, we discuss arguments that consider possible societal and group effects of moral bioenhancement.
An economic evaluation from a societal perspective will be performed alongside a multi-center, cluster randomized controlled trial with a one year follow up.
