Yes, I think that's a very valuable question. One of the assumptions that often comes when people hear people like me talk about increased citizen engagement in science and technology is a kind of fear that that's going to mean a kind of shutting down of scientific development, a sort of irrational constraint on technological development, because citizens are just a bit too skittish or something like that.
But that's far from the case, and in fact I think what has inspired examples like that of the Danish technology board is a kind of simultaneous commitment to the benefits of scientific and technological development, both in terms of economic growth and competitiveness, environmental sustainability and the like, and a very strong sense that that commitment needs to take place in the context of equally strong democratic commitments to making sure that good citizen judgment is brought to bear on technological and scientific development. Then we get the very best kinds of scientific and technological development we can get, and also, then, citizens' investment in that is a kind of authentic investment whereby they feel as though they're not just being sort of asked to sign on to a project that they've never really engaged with, but rather they feel as though their voice matters in the development of scientific and technological priorities, because they believe in them.