ABSTRACT

This Epilogue presents some closing thoughts of the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. The book provides a historical context in which a debate about the consequences of technoscience can take place. It draws some associations between the emergences of technoscience and postmodernity by arguing that during modernity science served as a model for technology but during postmodernity technology has come to serve as a model for science. The book outlines the new academic discipline of material science emerged through funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency to a number of universities to establish interdisciplinary material science laboratories. It examines that private industry can take on some of the roles of universities by establishing training and research programs that lead to new industry-based sciences. The book also discusses the representatives of academia and industry came together in Asilomar, California to debate regulations for the new biotechnology industries.