The Social Control of Technology

Collingridge, D. (1980). The Social Control of Technology. St. Martin's Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1980

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4114351W/The_social_control_of_technology?edition=socialcontroloft0000coll

Cited from

tech_ethics_ai_governance

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5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Collingridge Dilemma
  • Early action is cheap but uninformed; informed action is well-targeted but ruinously costly.

Mechanisms

• Collingridge Curve Workshop
  • Its failure mode is being drawn once, framed on a wall, and never revisited, or leaning on optimism about how quickly knowledge will arrive; the Collingridge dilemma

    This sourceThe workshop's two curves are a direct drawing of this dilemma, which is exactly why the crossing point can only be estimated, never precisely known in advance.

• Juncture Early-Warning Dashboard
  • It is the standing answer to the timing bind at the heart of the archetype: early on, a path is easy to change
• Policy and Regulatory Watch
  • Its strength is that it buys preparation time before rules harden — acting on the early side of the Collingridge dilemma, when a change can still be influenced and prepared for even though it is not yet certain.

    This sourceA policy watch exists to act on the early, controllable side of that trade-off.

• Staged Reversible Environment Pilot
  • The Collingridge dilemma is why the timing is the whole point

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