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First published 2025

The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction

Gauri Pathak, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Mark Nichter

Social Studies of Science

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Research article

First published 2010-08

The business of expectations: How promissory organizations shape technology and innovation

Neil Pollock, Robin Williams

Social Studies of Science

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Research article

First published 2023-5

Ethics as Discursive Work: The Role of Ethical Framing in the Promissory Future of Data-driven Healthcare Technologies

Rik Wehrens, Marthe Stevens, Johanna Kostenzer [...]

Science,Technology,& Human Values

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Research article

First published 2025-12

Speculative Frontiers of Technoscience and Innovation: Academic Scientists’ Engagement with Promissory and Emerging Technologies in Everyday Practice

Jianni Tien, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom [...]

Bulletin of Science,Technology & Society

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Research article

First published 2023-7

The UK COVID-19 contact tracing app as both an emerging technology and public health intervention: The need to consider promissory discourses

Gabrielle Samuel, Rosie Sims

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health,Illness and Medicine

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Research article

First published 2016-10

Benevolent technotopias and hitherto unimaginable meats: Tracing the promises of in vitro meat

Erik Jönsson

Social Studies of Science

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Research article

First published 2022-3

Meditation Apps and the Promise of Attention by Design

Rebecca Jablonsky

Science,Technology,& Human Values

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First published 2015-3

Assembling ‘the bioeconomy’: Exploiting the power of the promissory life sciences

Alan Petersen, Ivan Krisjansen

Journal of Sociology

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First published 2018-6

Capitalising on ageing anxieties: Promissory discourse and the creation of an ‘anti-ageing treatment’ market

Alan Petersen

Journal of Sociology

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Review article

First published 2012-5

Exploring the Role of Dedicated Online Biotechnology News Providers in the Innovation Economy

Michael Morrison, Lucas Cornips

Science,Technology,& Human Values

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