Technology: taking the good without the bad?
Publication date: May 2002
Summary
Robin Grove White emphasised the political context in which the new developments were taking place. If GM food was taken as an example, government and society were not at all well prepared for the spate of new technologies approaching. Chaos could ensue as the introduction of new products hit a backlash with a more sophisticated public who would not accept on trust assurances from business and government that all the relevant questions about power, control and responsibility had been addressed. Currently these legitimate concerns, because they do not fit into conventional risk assessment are labelled irrational.
