The Ambiguity of Technoscience: From Phenomenotechnique to Design Science Ghent University
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to work on ‘directed evolution’. The latter is not a new theory or discovery, but a technique to let natural selection shape proteins for us. Advances such as these are often claimed to indicate a bigger shift from science to ‘technoscience’: that is, from describing the world to actively shaping it. With this shift, the line between science and technology becomes blurred.
However, if ...