Contested futures : a sociology of prospective techno-science /: a sociology of prospective techno-science. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nik Brown, Brian Rappert, and Andrew Webster.
• Other Names: Brown, Nik; Rappert, Brian; Webster, Andrew, 1951-
• Contents: Introducing contested futures: from looking into the future to looking at the future / Nik Brown, Brian Rappert and Andrew Webster -- Futures of the present: from performativity to prehension / Mike Michael -- Forceful futures: from promise to requirement / Harro van Lente -- The narrative shaping of a product creation process / J. Jasper Deuten and Arie Rip -- Organising/disorganising the breakthrough motif: Dolly the cloned ewe meets Astrid the hybrid pig / Nik Brown -- Talking about the future: metaphors of the Internet / Sally Wyatt. Lessons from failed technology futures: potholes in the road to the future / Frank W. Geels and Wim A. Smit -- Science fiction's memory of the future / Hilary Rose -- Scripts for the future: using innovation studies to design foresight tools / Bastiaan de Laat -- Genetics and uncertainty / Annemiek Nelis -- Expectations and learning as principles for shaping the future / Luis Sanz-Menéndez and Cecilia Cabello -- Contested health futures / Tom Ling.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 303.48/3; Technology -- Social aspects; Social prediction; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts; Forecasting; Technology -- sociology; Social prediction; Technology -- Social aspects; Twenty-first century; Technische ontwikkeling; Prognoses; Futurologie; Culturele aspecten; Sociale aspecten; Forecasts
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351949002; 1351949004
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.