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When Standards Arrive too Late: Standards Debt and the Infrastructures of Technology Assessment

internet, standard, teknologi / MinHjemmeside

This article introduces the concept of standards debt to analyse a neglected layer of technologicalgovernance. Existing scholarship has examined regulatory lag, the pacing problem and theCollingridge dilemma, but has paid less attention to the delayed development of the assessmentinfrastructures through which governance becomes operational. Standards debt is defined as theinstitutional and temporal misalignment between recognised […]

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Elevatorer i Danmark – en ny branches teknik og regulering

Elevatorens historie begynder længe før den moderne passagerkabine: hånddrevne hejseapparater løftede i århundreder mad og varer på slotte, i teatre og i industribygninger. Gennembruddet for sikker personelevator kom i midten af 1800-tallet med ståltove ogOtis’ faldsikring; i Danmark slog hydrauliske anlæg an, indtil elektriske systemer fra slutningen af 1890’erne blev standard.Elevatorer skabte nye risici. Mange