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Achieving the goals of the Convergence of Knowledge, Technology, and Society (CKTS) will require collaboration among scientists, engineers, social scientists, and ethicists. In order to work together, these expertise communities will have to agree on superordinate goals and form trading zones where they can gradually develop creoles. Moral imagination is necessary when incommensurable mental models separate parties who need to trade. This chapter imagines the development of a Convergent Technology Network (CTN) that serves as a boundary organization facilitating trading zones and moral imagination among the diverse CKTS communities, including policy agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders.

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  1. Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Virginia, Thornton Hall, SEAS, 22904-4744, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Michael E. Gorman

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  1. Cybr-HumnSysPrg,DivofInfrmtn&Intlgntsyst, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA

    William Sims Bainbridge

  2. NatlSciFondtn&NatlNanotechnlgyInitiative, Arlington, Virginia, USA

    Mihail C. Roco

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Gorman, M.E. (2016). Boundary Organizations. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_46

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