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Articles
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'Innovation: Mapping the winds of creative destruction'. Research Policy 14: 3-22.
AKRICH, M. (1992)
'The de-scription of technical objects', In Bijker, W.E. and Law, J. (editors) Shaping technology/ building society. MIT Press, pp. 205 – 224
BIJKER, W. E. (1995)
'Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs toward a theory of sociotechnical change', Cambridge, MIT Press.
GEELS, F.W. (2005)
'Co-evolution of technology and society: The multi-level perspective and a case study, the transition in water supply and personal hygiene in the Netherlands (1850-1930)’, Technology in Society, Vol. 27, No.3, pp. 363-397
GEELS, F.W. AND SCHOT, J.W. (2007)
‘Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways', Research Policy, 36(3), 399-417
HAND, M. SHOVE, E. (2007)
‘Condensing Practices: ways of living with a freezer’, Journalof Consumer Culture, Vol. 7(1)
INGRAM, J., SHOVE, E. & WATSON, M. (2007)
'Products and Practices: Selected Concepts from Science and Technology Studies and from Social Theories of Consumption and Practice'. Design Issues, 23, 3-16.
KOTRO T., PANTZAR M., (2002)
'Product Development and Changing Cultural Landscapes – Is our Future in Snowboarding?', Design Issues, Vol. 18, n.2
MUNNECKE, M. & LUGT, R. V. D. (2006)
'Bottom-Up Strategies in Consumer-Led Markets'. Second International Seville seminar on future-oriented technology analysis (FTA): Impact on policy and decision-making. cd-rom ed. Seville (Spain), JRC-IPTS.
PANTZAR, M. & SUNDELL-NIEMINEN, R. (2003)
'Towards an Ecology of Goods: Symbiosis and Competition between Household Goods'. IN KOSKINEN, I. (Ed.) Empathic Design: User Experience in Product Design. Helsinki, IT Press.
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‘Toward a Theory of Social Practices: A Development in Culturalist Theorizing’, European Journal of Social Theory 5(2): 243–63.
SCHATZKI, T. R. (1996)
'Social practices a Wittgensteinian approach to human activity and the social', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
SHOVE, E. (2003)
'Comfort, cleanliness and convenience the social organization of normality', Oxford, England New York, Berg.
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'Consumption and Theories of Practice' in Journal of Consumer Practice Vol 5(2) pp131-153.
WEISS, L. (2002)
'Strategy - Developing tangible strategies'. Design Management Journal, 13, 33-38.
Fiction
movie: Clockwork Orange / Stanley Kurbrick(1971)
... is producer-director-screenwriter Stanley Kubrick's randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphically-stylized film of the near future. It is a terrifying, gaudy film adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 satiric, futuristic novel of the same name. This is Kubrick's ninth feature film, appearing between 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick (1968)
... is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science-fiction film of all time about exploration of the unknown. It was released, coincidentally, at the height of the space race between the USSR and the US. It appeared at the same time as NASA's exploratory Apollo Project with manned Earth orbiting missions - a prelude to orbiting and landing on the Moon with Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. And it prophetically showed the enduring influence that computers would have in our daily lives.
book: 1984 / George Orwell (1948)
... nightmarish novel about a dystopian, totalitarian society named Oceania. Its influence was also demonstrated in Apple Computer's famed TV advertisement aired in 1984, and filmed by Ridley Scott.] The words "Big Brother", "thought-crime", "thought-police", and "Orwellian" have since become commonplace terms.
movie: Matrix / Andy & Larry Wachowski (1999)
... is a ambitious and inventive virtual-reality flick. Slacker hacker Thomas Anderson/Neo was called as a messianic figure to save the world (of approximately the year 2199) from virtually indestructible Sentient Agents. It helped to illustrate what the future would be of futuristic sci-fi action films with slick and smart plots, and jaw-dropping action.
book: Mars triology / Kim Stanley Robinson
... is a series of a science fiction novels, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. It takes the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of its main characters, however vastly different they may be from each other. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian sociological and scientific advances in human culture. The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996). An additional collection of short stories and background information was published as The Martians (1999).
movie: Bladerunner / Ridley Scott (1982)
... is one of the most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time - and it has become an enduring cult classic favorite. But the enthralling film was originally a box-office financial failure, and it received negative reviews from film critics who called it muddled and baffling. It also wasn't encouraging that it faced Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) during its opening release.
movie: Brazil / Terry Gilliam (1985)
... is a combination science-fiction, despairing black comedy and fantasy that combines elements of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), George Orwell's novel 1984 (and director Michael Radford's 1984 (1984) that opened at about the same time), Kafka's The Trial, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (and Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971)), and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982).
movie: Minority Report / Steven Spielberg (2002)
The film's opening sequence including a violent murder; also the scene of 2054 DC Pre-Crime cop John Anderton manipulating a computer interface in mid-air like a symphony conductor; the idea that advertisements flashing on walls are specially-tailored to each person due to casual, public retinal scanning and tracking, and the concept of pre-crime law enforcement using psychic 'precogs' who lie in flotation tanks and forecast/envision future crimes.
More about the movies at "http://www.filmsite.org/
Social Science Fiction
Science fiction is by far the most known genre of future-oriented fiction, but there are alternatives to technology bias that it present. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Social_science_fiction

