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<p>Foreword ix</p> <p>Introduction xvii</p> <p><b>Chapter 1 The Growth of the Imagination in Industrial Societies 1</b></p> <p>1.1 A short history of science fiction 1</p> <p>1.1.1 From Frankenstein to The Island of Doctor Moreau 1</p> <p>1.1.2 Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction 3</p> <p>1.1.3 Albert Robida, a visionary in the shadow of Jules Verne 6</p> <p>1.1.4 Hugo Gernsback, from fictional invention to innovation 8</p> <p>1.1.5 Hard science fiction 10</p> <p>1.1.6 The cyberpunk movement 12</p> <p>1.1.7 The biopunk movement 16</p> <p>1.1.8 A map of utopic technologies 18</p> <p>1.2 The imagination, a cognitive barrier useful for innovation 20</p> <p>1.3 The organizations’ use of science fiction 21</p> <p>1.3.1 Design fiction and the popularization of technological imagination 21</p> <p>1.3.2 Science fiction prototyping, a method to innovate 24</p> <p>1.3.3 Science fiction and the identity of engineering students 27</p> <p>1.3.4 The filter-philter theory 28</p> <p>1.3.5 Institutional science fiction 29</p> <p>1.3.6 Future Visions: Microsoft’s science fiction 33</p> <p>1.3.7 China’s interest in science fiction and innovation 44</p> <p>1.3.8 Forecasting and institutional science fiction 47</p> <p>1.4 The psychology of organizations and science fiction 51</p> <p>1.4.1 Normal, subversive or pathological imagination 51</p> <p>1.4.2 Stimulating creativity with the imagination 54</p> <p>1.4.3 Psychiatry and science fiction 56</p> <p>1.4.4 Freudo-Lacanianism and science fiction 57</p> <p>1.5 Should we organize a patenting system for utopic technologies? 59</p> <p><b>Chapter 2 Technological Ideologies and Utopias 67</b></p> <p>2.1 The space industry and technological utopias 68</p> <p>2.1.1 Imagining the human colonization of Mars 68</p> <p>2.1.2 Terraforming Mars, a great project that remains fiction 77</p> <p>2.1.3 The colonization of the universe, the future of humankind? 79</p> <p>2.1.4 Space imagination in Lucien Boia and the ESA’s ITSF report 81</p> <p>2.2 Transhumanism and science fiction 84</p> <p>2.3 Science fiction and nanotechnologies 90</p> <p>2.4 Accelerationism for a critical use of science fiction 95</p> <p>2.5 From technological fiction to innovation 96</p> <p>2.6 Imagining futures, at risk of the Cassandra syndrome 104</p> <p><b>Chapter 3 Science, the Imagination and Innovation 109</b></p> <p>3.1 The serious global dangers tackled by science fiction 109</p> <p>3.2 The great steps in the history of technologies since the end of the 19th Century 116</p> <p>3.3 Economic cycles and science fiction 121</p> <p>3.4 Theories on innovation and theories on the imagination 124</p> <p>3.4.1 Performative imagination and the creation of cyberspace 133</p> <p>3.4.2 From science fiction to techno-scientific innovations: virtual reality headsets 134</p> <p>3.4.3 The imagination before, together with and after science 135</p> <p>3.4.4 The hypothesis of a basic imagination at the root of science 136</p> <p>3.4.5 From the prophetic unconscious to the technological imagination 137</p> <p>3.4.6 Historical dynamics and technological utopianism 138</p> <p>Conclusion 141</p> <p>Bibliography 149</p> <p>Index 169</p>

<b>Thomas Michaud</b> is the author of <i>Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction</i>, published by Wiley.

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