CELLULOID PROJECTIONS - IMAGES OF TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL FUTURES IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE-FICTION FILM

This paper explores the posited role of technology in our organization al futures as portrayed in contemporary science fiction films. Whilst the dominant imagery of such films has much in common with the way new technology is portrayed in mainstream management and organization tex ts, it is argued that the latter have much to learn from the imaginati ve constructions of the developing relationship between technology and organization that is offered by science fiction film-makers.