Is technology really too fast for society?

Press Release from Umeå University - Two researchers and historians of ideas at Umeå Studies in Science, Technology and Environment (USSTE), Umeå University, has newly published an article in the prestigious journal History and Technology. ^{Martin Hultman} - We often hear that technology is advancing so fast that society cannot keep up. But in reality, social change is intimately linked to technology changes, and that expectations of what technology can bring changes in intensity. This quote comes from the historian of ideas, Martin Hultman , who in a widely publicized research project together with his colleague Christer Nordlund , from Umeå Studies in Science, Technology and Environment ( USSTE ), is studying these parcels in intensity regarding environmental technology. With a broad experience in intellectual history, cultural studies and interdisciplinary environmental research, they examine the actors, ideas and venues where an expectation for fuel cells and hydrogen is created. Based on Hultman's dissertation, they analyse how the managers, engineers, politicians and journalists created great expectations for fuel cells and hydrogen around the world in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ^{Christer Nordlund} Hultman and Nordlund have now published their findings in the prestigious journal History and Technology.