Let me first thank the Europäische Akademie, the Czech Academy of Sciences and my old friend Professor Ladislav Tondl for this invitation to take part in your Workshop. Being in Prague is always a deep and immediate awareness and reminding that you are at the heart of Europe, which means the perfect and exceptional blending of tradition, history, art, culture and science. Two years ago I came here for the publication in Czech of my book Technologický úd_l, The Technological Destiny, and I concluded the talk I gave on this occasion in the following way, which explains, I guess, why I was invited to open your Workshop and talk about "Science, Democracy and Technological Risks".