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Abstract
With this short essay, we aim to raise awareness of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH) initiative and to invite our colleagues to partake in the research programs we hope to see initiated at NISTH in years to come. In particular, building on the launch of the Institute, supplemented by the extraordinary global experience of COVID-19, we suggest ways in which STS scholars from around the world might contribute to the public conversation regarding the 4IR and thereby also to the ways in which the relationships between technology, states, and citizens might be imagined with specific reference to Asia’s future.
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Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff is the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has authored more than 130 articles and chapters and is author or editor of more than fifteen books, including The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, Designs on Nature, The Ethics of Invention, and Can Science Make Sense of Life? Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies.
Ian McGonigle
Ian McGonigle is a Nanyang Assistant Professor of Global Science, Technology, and Society in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, where he is also a Social Impact Fellow at NISTH. He is broadly interested in the relationships between science, technology and identity.
Hallam Stevens
Hallam Stevens is Associate Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University and the Associate Director of NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity. His research is focused on the history of information technology and the history of the life sciences.