Hi David The Unsettling Scientific Stories project in the UK, which deals with imagined futures largely through history-of-science and science-and-literature approaches, held a conference I attended recently where about a third of the presentations dealt with these themes at some level: http://unsettlingscientificstories.co.uk/imagined-futures Unfortunately the book of abstracts doesn't seem to be available, but the titles give a useful indication of people who are currently writing on relevant questions. See in particular the whole session chaired by Stephen Cave: this was put together by members of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (lcfi.ac.uk), which is largely focused on policy but has brought together quite a few people interested in SF and other literary roots in contemporary AI research. Hope this helps! Cheers James On 17/08/2018 16:48, David C. Brock wrote:
Dear All,
I would be very grateful to learn of your favorite pieces that you’ve read on this topic: the place, role, and function of science fiction and science fiction fandom in the history of technology, and especially the history of computing. I’m wholly ignorant about it, bibliographically.
Thanks as ever,
David
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