It dovetails with the way people have for decades grappled with technological risk.

Starr, C. (1969), "Social benefit versus technological risk", Science 165 (3899), pp.

But the United States, he said, lacks direction and seems unwilling to reduce the technological risk facing individual companies.

For instance, technological risks abound as even enterprise software are prone to obsolescence and disruptive innovations.

As everything becomes more responsive in real time, the technological risks get higher.

To many public-interest groups and activists, this new role for regulators is good since the technological risks of modern life are seen as greater than in the past.

Later researchers have refined Dake's measures and have applied them to a wide variety of environmental and technological risks.

His research interests include technological risk, innovation policy, scientific uncertainty and public involvement in decision-making, and he has been involved in developing some participatory appraisal methods.

A migration plan can then be drawn up for systems which are at the end of the software life cycle or which have inherent technological risks.

"Then you can understand where the bottlenecks are and what the technological risks are."