Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the prism of emerging technologies. It calls for a new ethical, responsible and equitable path towards possible futures.
* Consolidates a wide range of interdisciplinary research engaged with futures;
* Richly illustrated with video stories and future-focused images;
* Written accessibly with a student reader in mind by a leading researcher within the field.
'What will our future look like? We often think of flying cars, holograms, vacations on a geostationary space station, robots preparing and serving our breakfast, kitchens with flashing buttons reminiscent of a spaceship's cockpit...
These stereotypical images foreground technologies and hide the humans. This book instead focuses on people and
their communities to present the key issues that will shape our future. Most importantly, it shows the value of social
sciences in designing new technologies for home, mobility, and work. Sarah Pink underscores the need for a new movement that unites anthropologists and other experts in interdisciplinary teams who dare to step to the edge of the future, look at the horizon, and explain how our stories might unfold on our planet and beyond, and how we might live well with emerging technologies.'
Dan Podjed, PhD, Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Institute for Slovenian Ethnology, Slovenia
'In this fascinating book, Sarah Pink draws on 20 years of pioneering empirical research and concept-making to examine how ethical, equitable and responsible futures can be produced in a world of rapidly evolving technologies that are designed to serve particular interests. Playful and provocative, Emerging Technologies unsettles how we think about and approach the future, challenging the reader to imagine and create new horizons.'
Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Ireland
Sarah Pink is a design anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and methods innovator. She is a professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, and an investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
1. Emerging Technologies 2. Futures 3. Trust 4. Hope 5. Data 6. Air 7. Energy 8. Home 9. Work 10. Mobilities 11. Life at the Edge