This book presents the proceedings of the 24th International Conference Professional Culture of the Specialist of the Future. Professionals and experts in all fields need to be prepared to handle unfamiliar situations. Some of these are unexpected events that may occur quite suddenly out of the blue, and others may emerge in the course of technological development or predicted trends. In order to successfully confront the future, professionals therefore need to engage in hypothetical thinking as they entertain concrete scenarios or fictitious possibilities. Scientists and engineers lead the way when they employ thought experiments and systematically consider alternative realities. Educators come up with creative approaches to foster the "art of the as-if." This highly interdisciplinary collection of 50 papers discusses the theoretical challenge of hypothetical thinking and presents practical strategies for its promotion.

Chapter 1. Storytelling in higher education: a literature review.- Chapter 2. Using Vladimir Propp's Approach to Create Digital Storytelling when Teaching for Undergraduate Students.- Chapter 3. Cognitive Aspects of Immersive Teaching in Digital Educational Environments.- Chapter 4. Socio-pragmatic Vectors of Scenario-based Behavior in Teaching English to Future Linguists.- Chapter 5.Corpus Technologies for the Creation of Scenarios in Foreign Language Education.- Chapter 6. Generative Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for the Development and Evaluation of Student's Thinking.- Chapter 7.Integration of Storytelling Technology and the Moral Education of Student Personalities in Foreign Language Instruction.- Chapter 8. Fiction and Imagined Possibilities for the Formation of Spiritual and Moral Qualities in Technical University Students.- Chapter 9.Harmonizing Personality and Developing Imagination in the Training "Face of Aggression". Chapter 10. The Scenario-motivational Model of Personal Formation of the Modern Specialist.-Etc...