Science, technology and our future: the big questions.
Publication date: May 2002
Summary
Steve Fuller made a plea for democratisation of science, particularly in the form of the consensus conference, which has now been used in many countries with good results. His view was that the public were not anti-science but were crying out for a voice in the decisions made on science and technology agendas. Democratising science would be a way of taking it back to its history the Enlightenment ideal was that all could participate in debate and decisions around scientific innovations.
