{"id":1598,"date":"2015-04-21T16:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2015-04-21T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:32:29","slug":"technology-assessment-as-political-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2015\/04\/21\/technology-assessment-as-political-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Assessment as Political Myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/04\/pacita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1599\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/04\/pacita.jpg\" alt=\"pacita\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/04\/pacita.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2015\/04\/pacita-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger Pielke, Jr. gave a talk in February at the PACITA Conference on Technology Assessment in Berlin. His talk was titled &#8220;Technology Assessment as Political Myth?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the talk Roger discussed the phrase &#8220;basic research&#8221; and the so-called &#8220;Green Revolution&#8221; as examples of the stories that we tell ourselves about how innovation works. It turns out that the stories that we tell about innovation &#8212; about science an technology in the economy and broader society&#8211; are grounded in more than just the empirical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kDUpWdoxhGU&amp;sns=em\" target=\"_blank\">Video<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fslideslive.com%2F38893099%2Ftechnology-assessment-as-political-myth&amp;redir_token=z4um2WcnQq6vv9mbWk1AUK0YVSF8MTQyOTcxNDg0N0AxNDI5NjI4NDQ3\" target=\"_blank\">Presentation Slides<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Pielke, Jr. gave a talk in February at the PACITA Conference on Technology Assessment in Berlin. His talk was titled &#8220;Technology Assessment as Political Myth?&#8221; In the talk Roger discussed the phrase &#8220;basic research&#8221; and the so-called &#8220;Green Revolution&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2015\/04\/21\/technology-assessment-as-political-myth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 04:26:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}