Format:
1 online resource (203 pages)
ISBN:
9781119427551
Series Statement:
Smart Innovation Set Volume 10
Content:
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Growth of the Imagination in Industrial Societies -- 1.1. A short history of science fiction -- 1.1.1. From Frankenstein to The Island of Doctor Moreau -- 1.1.2. Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction -- 1.1.3. Albert Robida, a visionary in the shadow of Jules Verne -- 1.1.4. Hugo Gernsback, from fictional invention to innovation -- 1.1.5. Hard science fiction -- 1.1.6. The cyberpunk movement -- 1.1.7. The biopunk movement -- 1.1.8. A map of utopic technologies -- 1.2. The imagination, a cognitive barrier useful for innovation -- 1.3. The organizations' use of science fiction -- 1.3.1. Design fiction and the popularization of technological imagination -- 1.3.2. Science fiction prototyping, a method to innovate -- 1.3.3. Science fiction and the identity of engineering students -- 1.3.4. The filter-philter theory -- 1.3.5. Institutional science fiction -- 1.3.6. Future Visions: Microsoft's science fiction -- 1.3.7. China's interest in science fiction and innovation -- 1.3.8. Forecasting and institutional science fiction -- 1.4. The psychology of organizations and science fiction -- 1.4.1. Normal, subversive or pathological imagination -- 1.4.2. Stimulating creativity with the imagination -- 1.4.3. Psychiatry and science fiction -- 1.4.4. Freudo-Lacanianism and science fiction -- 1.5. Should we organize a patenting system for utopic technologies? -- 2. Technological Ideologies and Utopias -- 2.1. The space industry and technological utopias -- 2.1.1. Imagining the human colonization of Mars -- 2.1.2. Terraforming Mars, a great project that remains fiction -- 2.1.3. The colonization of the universe, the future of humankind? -- 2.1.4. Space imagination in Lucien Boia and the ESA's ITSF report -- 2.2. Transhumanism and science fiction.
Content:
2.3. Science fiction and nanotechnologies -- 2.4. Accelerationism for a critical use of science fiction -- 2.5. From technological fiction to innovation -- 2.6. Imagining futures, at risk of the Cassandra syndrome -- 3. Science, the Imagination and Innovation -- 3.1. The serious global dangers tackled by science fiction -- 3.2. The great steps in the history of technologies since the end of the 19th Century -- 3.3. Economic cycles and science fiction -- 3.4. Theories on innovation and theories on the imagination -- 3.4.1. Performative imagination and the creation of cyberspace -- 3.4.2. From science fiction to techno-scientific innovations: virtual reality headsets -- 3.4.3. The imagination before, together with and after science -- 3.4.4. The hypothesis of a basic imagination at the root of science -- 3.4.5. From the prophetic unconscious to the technological imagination -- 3.4.6. Historical dynamics and technological utopianism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management -- EULA
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786301307
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Michaud, Thomas Innovation, between Science and Science Fiction London : iste, 2017 ISBN 9781786301307
Additional Edition:
Print version Michaud, Thomas Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction London : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2017 ISBN 9781786301307
Language:
English
Keywords:
Innovation
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Science-Fiction
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Wissenschaft
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