Engineering

Michael Decker becomes Chairman of VDI Advisory Board

March 7, 2015

Michael Decker becomes Chairman of VDI Advisory Board

The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has elected the Professor of Technology Assessment and Deputy Head of ITAS-KIT as Chairman of the Advisory Board "Society and Technology".

Programme

1. Methodology
1.1 Technology as the metric of progress.
1.2 Some basic concepts: Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos: “is the history of technology a cumulative process?”; invention and innovation; creativity and social construction of technology; the “Kranzberg Laws”.

2. Topics on History of Technology

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From Analog to Digital: The paths of contemporary modern technology