Philosophy Of Technology Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy
But most of the time design starts with an issue identified by some societal agent, which engineers are then invited to resolve. Many such issues, nevertheless, are ill-defined or wicked issues, meaning that it isn’t at all clear what the issue is precisely and what an answer to the issue would consist in. The ‘problem’ is a scenario that people—not necessarily the individuals ‘in’ the situation—find unsatisfactory, however sometimes with out being ready to specify a scenario that they discover more passable in different terms than as one by which the problem has been solved. In specific it’s not obvious…