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Future Needs Wisdom

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Helga Nowotny’s memoir provides a detailed account of her life, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of a woman who defied convention.
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Helga Nowotny’s memoir provides a detailed account of her life, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of a woman who defied convention in a male-dominated field of science. From her early days in Science and Technology Studies, where she faced bureaucratic hurdles, to her influential role in shaping the European Research Council, Nowotny offers a candid look at her career. She shares personal stories of navigating the complexities of academia and policy, revealing the uncertainties and contingencies that shaped her life and work. This memoir resonates with anyone who has pursued a path less traveled, and offers a glimpse into the resilience and ambition required to succeed in challenging environments.
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Price: $40.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Imprint: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Publication Date: 29 April 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789882373204
Format: Hardcover
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies
Future Needs Wisdomis not really a memoir, nor is it an intellectual history, nor is it entirely a personal reflection or a summative philosophy. It is, in fact, all of these things fused together: her life, her scholarship, her thoughts, her triumphs, her misgivings, and above all her hopes and utopic aspirations.

Helga Nowotny is a Professor Emerita of Science and Technology Studies at ETH Zurich and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Nowotny is the former president of the European Research Council (2010–2013) and one of its founding members (2007). She served as the Chair of the European Research Advisory Board, advising the European Commission from 2001 to 2005. Throughout her professional career, she has been engaged in science and innovation policy matters and continues to serve as an advisor at the national and EU levels.
Helga Nowotny has published widely in Science and Technology Studies, as well as on social time. She is the author of In AI we Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms (2021), The Cunning of Uncertainty (2015), Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age (with Giuseppe Testa) (2011), Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future (2008), and the editor of Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation (2006).

Acknowledgements
Preface: An Interview with Myself
PART ONE

I. My Non-linear Academic Trajectory
II. Moving between Science and Policymaking
III. Women — and Men — in Science
IV. Eigenzeit
V. In AI We Trust and the Illusion of Control
VI. What is Next? The Socioscope
VII. Epilogue: What Follows?
PART TWO
I. Preface to The Cunning of Uncertainty
II. Introduction to Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
III. Introduction: “Mode 2” Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge
IV. On the Changing Experience of Time: Eigenzeit. Revisited
V. The Illusion of Control: Living with Digital Others