Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lösch, Andreas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Grunwald, Armin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Meister, Martin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society,
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Philosophy of Technology.; Science and Technology Studies.

The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Socio‐technical futures shaping the present
• Part I: Analytical concepts, different kinds and patterns of socio-technical futures
• Part II: Socio-technical futures in different processes of change
• Part III: Intervening into the present through prospective reasoning
• Part IV: White paper on technology assessment and socio-technical futures
• Contributors.