Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: shaping the future through imaginaries of science, technology and society -- Part I Shaping human nature -- 2 Bioethics and the legitimation/regulation of the imagined future -- 3 The new biology of the social: shaping humans' future, science, and public health -- 4 Working imagination along the food-drug divide -- Part II Shaping techno-natures -- 5 Competing, conflicting and contested futures: temporal imaginaries in the GM crops controversy -- 6 Preserving landscapes and reordering science-society relations: imagining the future in transdisciplinary sustainability research -- 7 An automobile nation at the crossroads: reimagining Germany's car society through the electrification of transportation -- Part III Shaping societies -- 8 Parameters of nation-ness and citizenship in Belgium (1846-1947) -- 9 'Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous': science fiction and the utopian surplus of science -- 10 Shaping new horizons: proactionary attitudes, precautionary principles and the experimentalities of science in society -- Index