Institute of Technology Futures

The Institute of Technology Futures (ITZ) consists of four research departments that cooperate in teaching and research: the Department of History, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Sociology and the Department of Science Communication. An interdisciplinary exchange takes place in particular on research questions concerning historical, social, communicative, methodological, and ethical issues of imaginaries and visions of future states of technology and science. Thus, the ITZ brings together humanities and social science research with research from the natural and engineering sciences, computer science, law, and economics.