SF

The two first conference was about how the science fiction written in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s.., influence the society, today; and why a lot of products come from this imaginative production were commercial failure.

Except for the first examples, like Jules Verne, which use to imagine future stories context with contemporary technologies-or technologies studies(industrial materials and tools)- the SF provided a lot of ideas about future, very close to utopias. This future were optimistic, with very individual advanced consumption goods.

No collective utopia.

We saw that, even if these technologies would be totally possible, most of them would never be used in the reality, because there is not a real need. It is not really useful.
Moreover, People wouldn't be- and for many examples, like the videophone or the intelligent fridge, were not- adopt by anyone because of the rise price.

So, there were a lot of products from SF which were failures, and according to Nicolas Nova, it is very important to understand why, in order to be able to improve innovation.

Some SF provide other point of view; For example, a collective one: the anticipation.
This kind of SF show societies falling down, because of a political or social system in decadence: “1984”, a society where you even cannot think about a criticism, with “Telesceens” able to watch you all the time; “A brave new wold”, or “Gattaca” where children are created in vitro, and where their destiny are chosen before their birth, “Brazil”, which describe a system improbable, based on overinformation....

All these stories are Dystopias, and show how amazing could be a society with so many technologies. It is interesting to use all these criticisms in the same way than people used 30s/40s SF stories in order create flying car or fridge endowed with screen.

What could be a new way of traveling, for example, using our real context, and our technologies?