Converging technologies - what future? The views of the science and policy communities

The author discusses the history of the politicization of scientific knowledge and how this practices has now been The contention and politicization of knowledge is nothing institutionalized and transformed into generally accepted practices for monitoring or regulating the production and/or dissemination of novel knowledge through mediums such as Bioethics Councils or Committees and citizen dialogues or juries. The author discusses how converging technologies present both old and new challenges for knowledge politics and reflects on the future effect of discourse and knowledge politics on convergence technologies by considering developments in Austria.