Collingridge's dilemma in technology assessment
Collingridge's Dilemma is a very famous problem in technology assessment.This paper first analyzes three dimensions of it: time,knowledge and power,and points out that the theory base of the dilemma is the traditional positivism view of science and technology.Then reexplains and modifies the meanings of its three dimensions from the technoscience perspective which developed from STS in the 1980s and overturned the traditional positivism view of science and technology.Such a technoscience perspective totally solves the dilemma and brings some new and helpful inspirations to our technology assessment work.