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Download or read book Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present written by Andreas Lösch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume.