These socio-technical imaginaries include expectations around new ways of living and interacting with technology, with implications for everyday lives.
Nevertheless, producing such socio-technical imaginaries may only shape futures appropriated to those engaged in the visioning process [22], whereas other at times socially more robust futures may become ever more inaccessible.
As a young woman, Aurora is supposed to have been a technical adviser on an imaginary Hollywood movie called It Will Never Snow Again Over Kilimanjaro, but rejects cinema as trifling.
In this spirit ZEP's descriptions and depictions of CCS are treated here as expressions of sociotechnical imaginaries [20], founded not only on technical predictions but also on assumptions about social change and stability.
Rather than an exhaustive survey of brane imagery, I offer an analysis of the particular imaginaries that these string theorists employ within technical discourse.
The cumulative effect within each of these technical articles, then, is the evocation and employment of a scientific imaginary.
Peter Jackson's epic vision dazzled me, his technical achievement I found truly astonishing and the film presented an incredible imaginary world with a verisimilitude that cinemagoers had never encountered before.
And every now and then, when someone on the set questions a technical aspect of a spy's actions, he said, Mr. Weisberg pulls an imaginary C.I.A. card out of his pocket.
This imaginary meeting of three ancient historical figures, a gathering of genius, shows not only the artist's inventiveness and technical brilliance but also his thoughts on the subject.
Duffield had immense technical knowledge of cycling minutiae, but eschewed talking about such details to avoid putting off the uninitiated: his imaginary target audience was, apparently, a "widow at home", whom he nicknamed Pearl.
