"Institutional science fiction"

[toddz]

…well that’s a new one.

Entrepreneurship as the realization of the imagination: the example of institutional science fiction | Cairn.info

The excerpt and abstract for this journal article pose an interesting premise:

Institutional science fiction (ISF) is produced by organizations in order to publicize their business policies and develop their strategic discourse…

Microsoft (2015), for example, produced a science fiction anthology based on the collaborations between authors and engineers from their R&D centre.

Anyone seen this Microsoft SF anthology?

…has technical utopia become a source of creativity necessary for capitalism to renew itself and propose innovative concepts?

If one of our members happens to have access to this journal at cairn.info, I’d love to see a summary of conclusions.

(h/t: Bruce Sterling)

relevant:

• Post-capitalist economics
• Modern Prometheus?

[scidata]

Eventually, everything connects with everything else.
Perhaps this topic is relevant too:

Citizen Science Fiction

Citizen Science facilitates the rigorous, formal, scientifc participation of lay citizenry in research, usually under the auspices of academic leadership. This augments the pace and breadth of research, but more importantly, it makes for vastly increased general scientific literacy. Democracy depends on an informed, rational nation. “The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.” - Thomas Huxley “We need scie…

because I once wrote a piece entitled, “Institutional Citizen Science”