An Anthropology of Futures and Tech

This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Complicating Futures 2. Modelling the Future? 3. Innovation routes 4. Digital Anticipation 5. Algorithmic futures and the unsettled sense of care 6. Organising artificial intelligence and representing work 7. Making sense of sensors 8. Drones as a gendered matter of concern 9. Future Mobility Solutions? 10. Eco-sensory technologies and the surrealist impulse Afterword

About the author

Débora Lanzeni is Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia.
Karen Waltorp is Associate Professor – Promotion Program, Department of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sarah Pink is Professor at Monash University, Australia.
Rachel C. Smith is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Summary

This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.

Product details

• Assisted by: Debora Lanzeni (Editor), Débora Lanzeni (Editor), Sarah Pink (Editor), Pink Sarah (Editor), Rachel C. Smith (Editor), Karen Waltorp (Editor), Waltorp Karen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781350144927
• ISBN: 978-1-350-14492-7
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Society and culture: general