Bell's ringing call to action is one voice in a choir of concern about the potentially unsettling consequences of technological innovation, harmonizing with those of Lewis Mumford (megatechnics), Joseph Schumpeter (creative destruction), Langdon Winner (technological somnambulism), and the many scholars concerned with varieties of technological determinism (5). Their voices create an essential counterpoint to melodies of technological optimism. With Insatiable Curiosity, her latest book about innovation, Helga Nowotny (vice president of the European Research Council and an eminent scholar of science, technology, and society) has added a voice of distinctive elegance, clarity, and sophistication to the choir.
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