by Sarah Pink (Author)
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, curated through in-depth engagement with and across
experiential, environmental and technological possibilities. It tackles
three of the most significant challenges for contemporary society by
asking: how emerging technologies are implicated in the sites of
everyday lives; what place emerging technologies have in an evolving
world in crisis; and how we might better imagine and shape ethical,
equitable and responsible futures. The book interweaves three
narratives, each of which advances three sets of concerns for our
societal futures: ‘Emergence’, which addresses futures, trust and hope;
‘Worlds’, which addresses data, air and energy; and ‘Technologies’,
which addresses the future of mobilities, homes and work.
Not
simply a critical study of emerging technologies, this book is also an
approach to thinking and practice in times of global crisis that plays
out a mode of future-focused scholarship and action for the first half
of the twenty-first century.
