Wake-up calls for futures thinking and related sustainability research?
Harro van Lente (an STS scholar) recently observed that “socio-technical developments are saturated with formal and informal anticipations”. He argues that formal technology foresight exercises are consequently embedded in “a sea of expectations” and will “draw from the repertoire of circulating statements”, which he shows is evident in the case of technology roadmaps (Van Lente, … [Read more…]