For those with an interest in applied science fiction, in particular the digital psychiatry project I worked on with Dr Christine Aicardi and others at King’s College London – our most recent paper is published in the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice.

https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/en/article/view/7276

“Abstract • This practice-based research article defines, analyzes, and reflects on the use of applied science fiction (SF) for anticipating the sociotechnical and ethical challenges of future digital mental health technologies. It details the bespoke applied SF process designed for the 3-year project, which involved creating two short SF stories and organizing their subsequent afterlife. The key findings of the project show the impact of this experience on the scientific team: They became aware of and attentive to possible societal implications of the projected technology and questioned taken-for-granted assumptions.
Developing future-oriented critical reflexivity is part of futures literacy, which is essential to technology assessment but often
overlooked.”