Similarly, in this work and in Communication and the Evolution of Society (1979), Habermas begins to develop a distinctive conception of rational reconstruction, which models societal development as a learning process.
Pentti Malaska's dynamic model of transformation sees societal development as a learning process resulting in social progress as a function of time.
Holocene climate variability is important to understand the process of human societal development from a hunter-gatherer society to the present complex society1,2.
Second, nanotechnology appears against a learning process of early attempts to integrate ethical and societal consideration at an early stage of the development process, among which we find the first ELSA initiatives (see e.g. ELSA 1 [2001]).
As normative choices are being made throughout the entire research and technology development process and not only during the societal implementation phase, these aspects deserve consideration from the early stages onward.
The other is that it establishes the foundation for the legitimacy of the development process by making the broad array of societal actors stakeholders.
I think handing more and more violence over to such processes does not augur well for our societal development.
This paper explores the potential application of platform ecosystem theory to the commercial urban development process, where there is now great uncertainty regarding the future economic implications and societal requirements of physical commercial space.
Thus, whereas high ambiguity calls for societal deliberation on the 'right impacts' of an innovation, high indeterminacy suggests that such ambiguities may be best explored throughout the development process, as part of the hands-on R&D work.
His own development process?
