New potentials of an expanded technical control reveal the disparity between the results of the most strained rationality and unreflected goals, rigid value systems, and outdated ideologies. The causes and consequences of this disparity, as well as the possibilities for its resolution through reflection, are the subjects of the present essays by Jürgen Habermas. He examines how the power of technical control can be reclaimed in the consensus of acting and negotiating citizens, and how technology, science, and democracy can be reconciled under the conditions of advanced industrial society.