Science Fiction Futures and (Re)visions of the Anthropocene Julia D. Gibson and Kyle Powys Whyte The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology Edited by Shannon Vallor Online Publication Date: Apr 2021 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190851187.013.2 Abstract: This chapter discusses how humans envision futures, especially environmental futures, including the climate crisis, the Anthropocene, and mass extinctions. Although the philosophy of technology has traditionally examined the forecasting of technological risk and arguments about whether to embrace or reject the growth of technological mediation of human lives, the field has yet to fully investigate environmental futurisms and imagination. To begin a conversation for the philosophy of technology, philosophies of science fiction narrative discuss the different roles that imagination plays in projecting our concerns with the present onto futures that have not occurred and future generations who are not yet living. One of the key issues that the chapter explores is how science fiction imagination is based on assumptions and values about the history of technological change, including industrialization, capitalism, and colonialism. These issues reveal ways in which technology, future narrative, and climate justice are related. Keywords: environmental futures, science fiction, climate justice, colonialism, future narrative, environmental imagination, Anthropocene, philosophy of technology 1. Introduction The idea that global climate change—and the environmental injustices connected to it— signal or represent a new epoch of geological time has transfixed those in the sciences and the humanities. The Anthropocene, as some have proposed calling the moment we