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This chapter introduces the four people whom the authors consider as foundational to their thinking—they call them pneumatophores. It is a recognition of the main thinkers and doers who have inspired this volume: Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food movement; Alexander Langer, the challenger of the Olympic motto with its focus on higher, faster, and stronger; René von Schomberg, the European civil servant who reoriented research and policy work towards responsible innovation; and Joseph Weizenbaum, the groundbreaking computer scientist who reminded his readers of the highly important need in the computing world for human choice and responsibility.
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Patrignani, N., Whitehouse, D. (2018). Pneumatophores. In: Slow Tech and ICT. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68944-9_2
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