edited by Nik Brown, Brian Rappert, and Andrew Webster.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Burlington, VT :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Ashgate,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 277 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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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.