www.ccp-online.org | CCP 1 (2007): 28-51
COMPUTABLE FUTURES. Computers, Catastrophes and the Public.
Abstract: The article documents the development of future predictions from the 1960s to the present, and analyses the role of computer modelling as a form of scientific knowledge and instrument for developing prognoses, and also as an instrument for opening up new issues to the media.
Further, the epistemic discrepancies between the production of knowledge in the ‘Computational Sciences’, public scientific communication and the general public’s expectations of science are investigated as a current transformation process. It is argued that this transformation lays bare an ‘epistemic lag’ in the media and public sphere, rooted in an ignorance of the immanent consequences of the computerisation of knowledge production.
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Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie
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