Coming in 2026: Issue 3, 'Where are the Technologies of the Future? From Simondon to Science Fiction.'
About Issue 3:
'Where are the Technologies of the Future? From Simondon to Science Fiction.'
“Advanced technology must learn not only to invent the new, but to reintegrate the old and update it in order to make it a present under the call of the future.”
Gilbert Simondon, 1983
Beyond ephemeral promises, forty years after Gilbert Simondon invoked the “call of the future,” reflection on the fate of our civilization faces shared evidence: the technologies capable of meeting the major challenges ahead — whether material, energetic, informational, or environmental — are not reduced to the futuristic appearances of the accelerated innovations that have marked recent decades. Far from resembling a blind race for novelty, it is above all technologies capable of laying the foundation for a less ephemeral future — for both living beings and machines within their intertwined environments — that should capture our attention.
This necessity demands a profound reorientation of contemporary thought, which must now rely on the convergence of diverse disciplines, ranging from the philosophy of technology to the practice of “science-fiction prototyping,” through the natural and human sciences, design methods, knowledge management, and ecological redirection. The goal is to move beyond the disorientation born from abandoning linear representations of technical progress, in order to develop a more complex and nuanced understanding of technological trajectories.
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