1. Editorial

   • Karamjit S. Gill

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 3

2. The ‘Japan problem’ in science and technology and basic research as a culture

   • Miwao Matsumoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 4 - 21

3. A Citizens' Conference on Gene Therapy in Japan: A Feasibility Study of the Consensus Conference Method in Japan

   • Yukio Wakamatsu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 43

4. Technology and prognostic predicaments

   • Don Ihde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 44 - 51

5. Coping with uncertainty: New forms of knowledge production

   • Günter Küppers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 52 - 62

6. Experts as non-experts: A case from SSC

   • Hironori Ayabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 68

7. Life-worlds and social relations in computers

   • László Ropolyi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 87

8. Knowledge-intensive business services in the new mode of knowledge production

   • Christiane Hipp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 88 - 106

9. Globalisation, place and gender

   • Merete Lie
   • Ragnhild Lund

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 123

10. Biographies of scientists and public understanding of science

    • Sugiyama Shigeo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 124 - 134

11. Technology: Servant or master? An economic viewpoint

    • Jacobus A. Doeleman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 155

12. Scientific rationality and the ‘even stronger programme’

    • Tetsuji Iseda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 163

13. Lessons from nursing theories: Toward the humanisation of technology

    • Seiya Abiko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 164 - 175

14. Technology, human, and society centred visions of the future of technology

    • Tarja Kuosa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 176 - 192

15. The creative landscapes column: Beachcombing

    • Bob Muller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 199

16. Organisations going virtual

    • Carolien Metselaar
    • Ruud van Dael

    Open Forum Pages: 200 - 209

17. Call for papers

    News Section Pages: 210 - 213