Failed technology futures
Pitfalls and lessons from a historical survey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9846754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank W Geels (0000-0001-8778-4757, University of Twente, corresponding author), Wim A Smit, Wim Smit (University of Twente) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 9-10 |
| Pages | 867-885 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Futures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-3287 • E-ISSN: 1873-6378 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0016-3287(00)00036-7 |
| OpenAlex | W2159826670 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 12 |
Economics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Financial economics · Futures contract · Futures studies · Hindsight bias · Information and Communications Technology · Performative utterance · Point (geometry · Political science · Technological change · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Reckless Proliferation and Guardianship Proliferation
What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability
Normative expectations in systems innovation
Social barriers to the adoption of smart homes
Travel time use in the information age
Navigating foresight in a sea of expectations
Low expectations within conservative wing of discourse coalition for innovation and technoscience
“Bigger than government”
The evolving roles of actors in sustainability experiments
Technology readiness levels for policy making
Diverging pathways to port sustainability
Failed technology management
Futures Work as a Mode of Academic Engagement
Innovation Priorities for UK Bioenergy
Taming the Golem - an Experiment in Participatory and Constructive Technology Assessment
Heterogeneous impacts and spillover effects of green innovation network and environmental regulation on water use efficiency
Environmental conflicts, research projects and the generation of collective expectations
Once promised, forever believed? An essay on the blind spots of AI promises
Weapons Design, Engineering Ethics, and the Duty to Inform
Hope Against Hype - Accountability in Biopasts, Presents and Futures
Nanomedicine and personalised medicine
Mythes sociotechniques et développement
Sociotechnical Myths in Development
Energizing technology
Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions
Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm
Applying the multi-level perspective to climate geoengineering
Post-conventional energy futures
Mini-grids and renewable energy in rural Africa
Reducing energy demand through low carbon innovation
Towards pragmatic narratives of societal engagement in the UK energy system
When social practices meet smart grids
Fantasy, values, and identity in biofuel innovation
The promise of peer-to-peer trading? The potential impact of blockchain on the actor configuration in the Dutch electricity system
From “living lab” to strategic action field
Thinking big? Ghana, small reactors, and nuclear power
The Sociology of the Future
Social futuring – In the context of futures studies
Ratings, Quality, and Accreditation
Assistive spectacles
The Role of Forecasts in Planning for Energy Infrastructure
A genealogy of social geomedia
Mobile versus headworn augmented reality
Futures research, communication and the use of information and communication technology in households in 2010
Rapidly diffusing innovation
Translating local stakeholders' perception in rural development strategies under uncertainty conditions
Pharmaceutical prospects
The business of expectations
Pharmacogenetics as Alien Science
The best flood I ever had”
Politics of expectations
Back to the futures
Forecasts or fallacies
The Japanese government’s promotion of automated driving driven by shared positive expectations
Innovation niches and socio-technical transition
The evolving sociotechnical futures of outer space
Home-personas meet energy narratives of demand response
Navigating urban futures
Futures research and the IPCC assessment study on the effects of climate change
Investigating the drivers of innovation diffusion in a low income country context. The case of adoption of improved maize seed in Malawi
The UK Covid-19 contact tracing app as both an emerging technology and public health intervention
Landscape matters
Expectation dynamics and niche acceleration in China’s wind and solar power development
From analogue to digital and back again
Feelings of Discontent and the Promise of Middle Range Theory for STS
Exploring the Role of Dedicated Online Biotechnology News Providers in the Innovation Economy
Back to the Future
Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology
A sociohistorical reading of the Dictionnaire des Mondialisations. First steps towards a pragmatic approach to globalisation
The making of mining expectations
Wicked futures
When the science fails and the ethics works
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |