As the digital revolution continues and our lives become increasingly governed by smart technologies, there is a rising need for reflection and critical debate about where we are, where we are headed, and where we want to be. Against this background, the paper suggests that one way to foster such discussion is by engaging with the world of fiction, with imaginative stories that explore the spaces, places, and politics of alternative realities. Hence, after a concise discussion of the concept of speculative fiction, we introduce the notion of datafictions as an umbrella term for speculative stories that deal with the datafication of society in both imaginative and imaginable ways. We then outline and briefly discuss fifteen datafictions subdivided into five main categories: surveillance; social sorting; prediction; advertising and corporate power; hubris, breakdown, and the end of Big Data. In a concluding section, we argue for the increased use of speculative fiction in education, but also as a tool to examine how specific technologies are culturally imagined and what kind of futures are considered plausible given current implementations and trajectories. Abstract

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数据小说：或者度量和预测分析规则如何想象未来世界

随着数字革命的不断发展，我们的生活越来越受到智能技术的支配，人们越来越需要对我们身在何处，要去往何处以及要成为何处进行反思和批判性辩论。在这种背景下，本文提出了一种促进这种讨论的方法是与小说世界互动，并通过富有想象力的故事来探索替代现实的空间，地点和政治。因此，在对投机小说的概念进行了简要讨论之后，我们介绍了数据小说的概念，将其作为投机性故事的统称，以富有想象力和想象力的方式处理社会的数据化。然后，我们概述并简要讨论了15种数据小说，分为五个主要类别：监视；社会排序；预测; 广告和企业实力；傲慢，崩溃和大数据的终结。在最后一节中，我们主张在教育中增加使用投机小说，同时也应作为一种工具，以检验在文化上如何想象特定的技术，以及在当前的实施情况和轨迹下，什么样的未来被认为是可行的。抽象