TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Nik
AU  - Rappert,Brian
AU  - Webster,Andrew
TI  - Contested futures: a sociology of prospective techno-science 
SN  - 0754612635
U1  - 303.49 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Aldershot
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Social prediction
KW  - Twenty-first century
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes index; List of Contributors --; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; Part 1; Time, Temporality and the Social Construction of the Future --; 1; Introducing Contested Futures: From Looking into the Future to Looking at the Future --; 2; Futures of the Present: From Performativity to Prehension --; Part 2; Language and the Social Rhetoric of Technical Futures --; 3; Forceful Futures: From Promise to Requirement --; 4; The Narrative Shaping of a Product Creation Process --; 5; Organising/Disorganising the Breakthrough Motif: Dolly the Cloned Ewe Meets Astrid the Hybrid Pig --; 6; Talking About the Future: Metaphors of the Internet --; Part 3; Past Futures --; 7; Lessons from Failed Technology Futures: Potholes in the Road to the Future --; 8; Science Fiction's Memory of the Future --; Part 4; Future Science, Future Policy and the Management of Uncertainty --; 9; Scripts for the Future: Using Innovation Studies to Design Foresight Tools --; 10; Genetics and Uncertainty --; 11; Expectations and Learning as Principles for Shaping the Future --; 12; Contested Health Futures --; Index
ER  -