This approach certainly risks degenerating into scholastic discussions of farfetched technological futures, defending spectacular positions or providing the technology proponents with the answers they seek.
Appealing to past successes in science and technology, proponents dismiss objections as only the latest form of Luddism.
In addition to underestimating the costs and risks other manufacturers could encounter in moving to their new technology, proponents of the process, like true believers in any new technology, are probably underestimating the strengths and potential of competing technologies.
This suggests that cultural differences at the national level be a further contextual lens helpful to policy makers and technology proponents as they embark upon energy system change initiatives.
An ELSI approach geared towards consequences of research and development processes may be accused of serving the interest of technology proponents.
Thereby the politics of the research process has been concealed in ways that in fact serve the interests of the technology proponents, as well as creating a comfortable professional zone for the ELSI researcher (see for instance Balmer and Bulpin [2013]).
Juengst partly foreshadows the criticism of ELSI programs serving the interest of the technology proponents by pointing out that the aim of social responsible genomics research rules out ELSI research questioning the HGP as such (ibid. 69), but as he adds, no one is prevented to do that from the outside of the project funding.
If an invention is not new or is an obvious variant of known technology, proponents say, then the invention is not patentable for those reasons, but the courts should not exclude software which is increasingly important to modern life and products from patent eligibility.
Like with other emerging technologies, proponents keep promising steep progress and ensuing technological and economic benefits, while a number of security, safety and ethical aspects are considered contentious [2].
The use of floating technologies, proponents say, could help overcome some obstacles that have deterred offshore wind farms.
The technology's proponents think big: square-kilometres big.
