“Jin’s new book, Global Technological Change, is a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the twenty-first century. As Jin correctly points out, in emerging knowledge societies, the ’soft’ technologies are drivers of the ’hard’ technologies. . . . This book is a major intellectual advance that can help clarify human choices for decades to come.”

Hazel Henderson, US Office of Technology Assessment

“This volume indicates that the complex problems we are facing in the twenty-first century can only be solved by a balance between ‘yin-yang’ environment, between hard technology (machine-centered) and soft technology (human-centered). This concept is invaluable as it conveys a new perspective of the assumptions about the relationships between technological innovation, institutional innovations, and the gap between the developed and developing countries at the turn of the new millennium.”

Karamjit S. Gill, AI and Society: Journal of Human Centered Systems