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During recent decades all industrialized countries have established political institutions and procedures to influence technical development. It would take several pages to list all the ministries of technology, planning authorities, committees on nuclear energy, commissions for astronautics, national boards for automation, offices of technology assessment, and so on, which are expected to control technical development according to social requirements and political goals. To say it in a word: While in former times technics had been reserved to private enterprise, it now ranks among public affairs.
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Ropohl, G. (1983). A Critique of Technological Determinism. In: Durbin, P.T., Rapp, F. (eds) Philosophy and Technology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7124-0_6
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