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Sociotechnical Imaginaries

Concept Futurism Explanation

How we imagine the future through ‘collectively held visions & aspirations about desirable futures, particularly how scientific & technological advancements will shape social life and order’.

Also see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328725000692

“describes how a society’s shared visions of the future shape its scientific and technological developments. These developments in turn influence how that society imagines its future. This symmetrical approach builds on co-production as an idiom that emphasizes the mutual production and shaping of knowledge and social order – or how epistemic and normative commitments are intertwined”

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