@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1125, 

TITLE={Science fiction, a cathartic technological imaginary useful for innovation}, 
  
AUTHOR={Thomas Michaud, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={9}, 

NUMBER={Issue 2}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Science-fiction-a-cathartic-technological-imaginary-useful-for-innovation}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1125}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The journal Technologie et Innovation had published a second issue dedicated to the representations of technology in audiovisual fictions. Science fiction films therefore captured the interest of most of the researchers who participated. The articles question in particular the impact of often dystopian fictions on the creation of a technophobic climate potentially harmful to innovation. Virtual reality, “total memory” technologies, connected homes, artificial intelligence, medical technologies, neurotechnologies and video games are thus the subject of futuristic fictions warning the viewer about the negative uses of these machines. Faced with the thesis of a performative science fiction, science fiction is therefore conceived as an obstacle to innovation. The sum of this research directs us towards a conception of these stories as a cathartic imaginary, capable of considering the worst to purge the innovation process of negative passions, thus freeing capitalism and R&D to generate products that are sources of progress to humanity.}}