Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present : Empirical Examples and Analytical Challenges

Introduction: Socio‐technical futures shaping the present -- Part I: Analytical concepts, different kinds and patterns of socio-technical futures -- Part II: Socio-technical futures in different processes of change -- Part III: Intervening into the present through prospective reasoning -- Part IV: White paper on technology assessment and socio-technical futures -- Contributors.