This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As
opposed to the story-lines of economic innovation and social construction that tend to dominate
both the popular and scholarly literature on science technology and society (or STS) the
authors offer an alternative approach devoting special attention to the role played by social
and cultural movements in the making of science and technology. They show how social and
cultural movements from the Renaissance of the late 15th century to the environmental and
global justice movements of our time have provided contexts or sites for mixing scientific
knowledge and technical skills from different fields and social domains into new combinations
thus fostering what the authors term a hybrid imagination. Such a hybrid imagination is
especially important today as a way to counter the competitive and commercial hubris that is
so much taken for granted in contemporary science and engineering discourses and practices with
a sense of cooperation and social responsibility. The book portrays the history of science and
technology as an underlying tension between hubris -- literally the ambition to play god on the
part of many a scientist and engineer and neglect the consequences - and a hybrid imagination
connecting scientific facts and technological artifacts with cultural understanding. The book
concludes with chapters on the recent transformations in the modes of scientific and
technological production since the Second World War and the contending approaches to greening
science and technology in relation to the global quest for sustainable development. The book is
based on a series of lectures that were given by Andrew Jamison at the Technical University of
Denmark in 2010 and draws on the authors' many years of experience in teaching non-technical
or contextual knowledge to science and engineering students. The book has been written as part
of the Program of Research on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark
(PROCEED) supported by the Danish Strategic Research Council from 2010 to 2013.Table of
Contents: Introduction Perceptions of Science and Technology Where Did Science and
Technology Come From? Science Technology and Industrialization Science Technology and
Modernization Science Technology and Globalization The Greening of Science and Technology
