The Commentary About Grunwald’s Thoughts Of Technology Assessment

Since the last century, two sides of technology has become more and more clear. In "Anti-technology wave", technology assessment activity has produce and develop in the United States. In another countries, as Europe and Japan, have launch. Technology assessment activities based on the activities of scientific policy consultation and appeared as the basis of scientific decision-making. The commentary about Grunwald’s thought of technology assessment has formed in this background. The article relys on Grunwald’s writings, and to discuss the social background of the thoughts of its technology assessment. In this way, we will find his theoretical innovation.Grunwald’s technology assessment thought baesd on technology risk ethics. He believes that risk is the main source of technical ethics. In the risk society, we can not foresee the impact of technology on the future. So he proposed the idea of rational technology evaluation. As the same time, Grunwald also proposed the characteristics of the technical assessment normative. Take nanotechnology and converging technologies for example, he analyzes the application of the technology assessment in the high and new technology. The risks of high and new technology have the potential, the long periodicity and the extensive characteristics. He presents that we should change the traditional form of technology assessment, and put technology assessment as the part of the technology development stage.Grunwald’s thoughts of technology assessment change the traditional static mode of technology assessment, so as to achieve the technical assessment of the dynamic model of transformation. His thoughts is not only enrich the theory of today’s technology assessment, but also for the technical assessment activities in scientific decision-making provides a new way of thinking. The technical evaluation of our country has the important enlightenment function and guiding significance.