| Outline Michael Decker, John Grin, Armin Grunwald, Peter Mambrey, Rob Reuzel, August Tepper, Gert Jan van der Wilt |
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| I | Introduction |
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Vision Assessment to Support Shaping 21st Century Society? Technology Assessment as a Tool for Political Judgement John Grin |
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| II | Case Studies. Technology Assessment and the Role of Visions |
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Technology Assessment as Metaphor Assessment. Visions Guiding the Development of Information and Communications Peter Mambrey, August Tepper |
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Technology Assessment in the Health Care Area: A Matter of Uncovering or of Covering Up? Rob Reuzel, Gert Jan van der Wilt |
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Bloodless War or Bloody Non-Sense? Technology Assessment's Role in Uncovering Old Propositions behind New Airpower Concepts John Grin |
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| III | Visions and Societal Rationality |
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Technology Policy between Long-Term Planning Requirements and Short-Ranged Acceptance Problems. New Challenges for Technology Assessment Armin Grunwald |
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Replacing Human Beings by Robots. How to Tackle that Perspective by Technology Assessment? Michael Decker |
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| IV | Conclusions |
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The Lessons we Learnt: First Outline of Strategy and a Methodical Repertoire for Vision Assessment John Grin, Michael Decker, Armin Grunwald, Peter Mambrey, Rob Reuzel, Gert Jan van der Wilt |