Airports and the air transportation system: functional refinements and functional discovery
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The technological development of airports and the air transportation system in general can be attained via functional refinement and functional discovery. Functional refinement is concerned with the enhancement of existing features while functional discovery deals with the creation of new technological functions and forms. Functional refinement may be readjusted to encourage functional discovery but adopting functional refinement efforts that disregard functional discovery runs counter to social desire for specialized and flexible production.
Publication Name: Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0040-1625
Year: 1993
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Technology futures analysis: Toward integration of the field and new methods
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Many forms of analyzing future technology and its consequences coexist, and these techniques fit into a field called technology future analysis (TFA). TFA methods and processes to better inform technology management as well as science and research policy, should be advanced by sharing perspectives among the several TFA forms and introducing new approaches from other fields.
Publication Name: Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0040-1625
Year: 2004
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Sourcing forecast knowledge through argumentative inquiry
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A process for nominating and assessing potential actions in-group meetings is described. The application described, illustrates the use of argumentative process in the design and selection of radio programs for estimating demand group meetings applied an inverted form of facilitated argument whereby depersonalized statements were debated on.
Publication Name: Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0040-1625
Year: 2004
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