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New TATuP issue: "Science fiction and technology assessment: Fiction, speculation, and the future of emerging technologies"

2026-07-07

New TATuP issue: 35/2 (2026): " Science fiction and technology assessment: Fiction, speculation, and the future of emerging technologies".

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2026-04-01

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2026-03-20

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Vol. 35 No. 2 (2026): Science fiction and technology assessment: Fiction, speculation, and the future of emerging technologies

Published: 2026-07-06

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Mahmud Farooque

3-3
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TA Focus 35/2 (2026): News for the TA community

Jonas Moosmüller

6-7
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Exploring technologies through imaginary worlds: At the intersection of science fiction and technology assessment

Wenzel Mehnert, Isabella Hermann, Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves, Lars Schmeink, Syamsuriatina Ishak

9-15
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What fiction does within and outside technoscience: Science fiction, fictional technofutures, and sociotechnical fictions

Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves, Wenzel Mehnert

16-21
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Ectogenesis: An example of science fiction’s relevance to technology assessment

Isabella Hermann, Christopher Coenen

22-27
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Beyond ‘The Circle’: Triangles, stories, and sociotechnical futures

Nanditha Krishna, Alessandro Ianniello

28-35
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Science fiction in UK Advanced Air Mobility innovation: Conceptual resource and sensemaking tool

Will Mason-Wilkes

36-42
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Anticipating sociotechnical and ethical challenges of future digital mental health technologies: A case for applied science fiction

Christine Aicardi, Stephen Oram, Zoë Firth, Helen Fisher

43-48
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Seven science fictional affordances for technology assessment

Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie

49-55
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Beyond poetic nostalgia: Imagination and the Sinophone trajectory of speculative fiction

Yuan Feng

56-61
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Between science and science fiction – the case of the Manhattan project: H. G. Wells, L. Szilard, and the nuclear narratives of World War II from U.S.A. to U.S.S.R.

Sebastian Korenič Tratnik

62-68
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Science fiction and technology assessment: Fiction, speculation, and the future of emerging technologies

Wenzel Mehnert, Isabella Hermann, Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves, Lars Schmeink, Syamsuriatina Ishak (Special topic editors)

8-68
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