Technology Forecasting

Japanese: 技術予測 - ぎじゅつよそく
Technology Forecasting
Predicting what technologies will be developed in the future or how technology will progress. Recently, the scale of technology has grown remarkably and its scope has expanded extremely. As a result, the impact of technological progress has become extremely complex, and it has become necessary to consider new fields that were not previously considered as targets of technology as targets of technology. Furthermore, it is necessary to predict the qualitative changes in human desires as a result of technological development. Recently, technology predictions have been made taking these things into account, making prediction methods even more difficult. The most widely used method is the Delphi method, in which a wide range of questions are asked in a questionnaire to many experts, the answers are compiled, and then the same questions are asked again with the answers attached, and this is repeated to see what results are compiled. This is used to see how human desires and social needs will change in the future, and technology predictions are made based on this. It is also important to investigate the impact of technological development on the environment when making technology predictions.
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Japanese:
将来どのような技術が開発されるか,あるいは技術がどのように推移するかを予測すること。最近では技術の規模が著しく大きくなり,その範囲も極度に広がっている。そのため,技術の進歩の影響がはなはだしく複雑になり,従来は技術の対象として考えられなかった新しい分野まで技術の対象として考える必要が生じている。さらに技術の発達の結果,人間の欲求が質的に変化することも予測しなければならない。最近ではこうしたことを考慮して技術予測を行うので,予測方法は一層むずかしくなっている。最も広く使われるのはデルファイ法で,多くの専門家に対しアンケートによる広範な質問を行い,その回答をまとめ,次に回答を付して同じ質問を再び行い,これを繰り返してどのような結果がまとまるかを調べる方法である。これによって人間の欲求や社会的ニーズが将来どのように変化するかを調べ,これをもとに技術予測を行う。また技術開発が環境に与える影響も調査して技術予測を行うことも重要である。
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