Contested futures :  a sociology of prospective techno-science / 
edited by Nik Brown, Brian Rappert and Andrew Webster. 
 - xiv, 277 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> List of Contributors --  Foreword --  Acknowledgements --  Time, Temporality and the Social Construction of the Future --  Introducing Contested Futures: From Looking into the Future to Looking at the Future --  Futures of the Present: From Performativity to Prehension --  Language and the Social Rhetoric of Technical Futures --  Forceful Futures: From Promise to Requirement --  The Narrative Shaping of a Product Creation Process --  Organising/Disorganising the Breakthrough Motif: Dolly the Cloned Ewe Meets Astrid the Hybrid Pig --  Talking About the Future: Metaphors of the Internet --  Past Futures --  Lessons from Failed Technology Futures: Potholes in the Road to the Future --  Science Fiction's Memory of the Future --  Future Science, Future Policy and the Management of Uncertainty --  Scripts for the Future: Using Innovation Studies to Design Foresight Tools --  Genetics and Uncertainty --  Expectations and Learning as Principles for Shaping the Future --  Contested Health Futures --  Index.  Part 1.  1.  2.  Part 2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  Part 3.  7.  8.  Part 4.  9.  10.  11.  12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0754612635 9780754612636 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00133531 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social prediction<br/>Twenty-first century--Forecasting<br/>Technology--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.49