Category Archives: Technology foresight

Technology foresight: Learning from early attempts

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

Irvine & Martin’s (1984) seminal Foresight in Science: Picking the Winners, provides fascinating insights into early attempts at technology foresight. The authors describe a comparative case study of technology foresight in France, (what was then) West Germany, the US and … Continue reading →

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Technology foresight: The difficulty of peering into the future

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, technology foresight emerged from the future studies and technology forecasting fields and seeks to apply outcomes from these fields to policy- and decision-making (see the earlier posting for a discussion on what technology … Continue reading →