ing and indexing services say which articles are in the world, but they do not typically say where they are or who might provide them. There are no tools which ‘locate’ articles in the library, and, in the absence of widely deployed concise identifiers for journal articles, location is largely a manual process. Automation of this operation would confer many benefits, and will be increasingly ne...

Implicitly or explicitly, designers always affect the lives and wellbeing of users and of society at large. This is true in a trivial sense, since products are meant to fulfill existing and conscious needs. But it is also true in a less obvious way, since designers also affect the lives of users because of the various influences products have on people’s behavior, attitudes and needs. Such infl...

This paper explores a futures perspective for practical theology. Although there are some examples of a future orientation, a systematic futures perspective has not been developed. Building on futures studies (including predictive studies on foresight and design and architecture studies), the authors propose a methodological model for future-sensitive practical theology, accounting for the prob...

One of the most significant current discussions in Utopian Studies and Science-Fiction Studies is the idea of Singularity, described by Vernor Vinge in the article “The Coming Technological Singularity: How To Survive in the Post-Human Era” (1993) as “the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence” (Vinge, 1993: 12). The concept of singularity is central to...