Abstract
In every age cumulative innovation accrue from the previous period, which discarded are those that do not meet the new challenges of civilization. Industrial Era brought a “mass society” and bureaucratic organizations. Information Era and emerged “information society” and network and virtual organizations. Always one of the sources of social change was the development of technology: the good and the bad. Therefore, multidimensional (multicriteria multiattribute) systems analysis is required, which is an important element of the valuation of real and potential technologies.
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Sienkiewicz, P., Świeboda, H. (2017). Technology Assessment in Systems Analysis. In: Zacher, L. (eds) Technology, Society and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47164-8_13
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