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1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies -- An Anthropology of Technologies -- A Future-Oriented Anthropology -- Methods for Anthropologies of Futures and Technologies -- Horizons for the Anthropology of Futures and Technologies -- Note -- References -- 1 Complicating Futures -- Introduction -- Visions of Technological Future(s) -- Ethnographic Co-Envisioning -- Catalysing Co-Envisioning -- 5 Stars -- Co-envisioning as Anthropological Practice -- Conclusion |
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Multi-engineering and an Anthropology of Futures -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 4 Digital Anticipation -- Introduction -- Child Protection Social Work as a Fieldwork Site -- Contingency -- Anticipation -- Ethics -- Digital Media Phenomenology as Intervention -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Algorithmic Futures and the Unsettled Sense of Care -- Introduction -- Profiles for Everybody -- Falling Apart and Repaired -- Toward Not-Knowing -- Fostering Care -- Aftermath -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Organising Artificial Intelligence and Representing Work |
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Introduction -- Towards a Data-Driven Tax Administration -- Fieldwork -- Theoretical-analytical Resources for Situating AI -- Work in the Customs Inspection -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7 Making Sense of Sensors -- Introduction -- Smart Building: Control Or Care? -- Thousands of Sensors Under One Roof -- Thickening the Big Data -- "It's Too Cold!" -- What Sensors Reveal -- The Game of Death -- Making the Sensor Happy -- Trick, No Treat -- Taking Back Control -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 8 Flying Drones as a Gendered Matter of Concern |
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Introduction -- Methodology: Bringing Insights to Policymakers and Matters of Concern to the Public -- Sensing Privacy and Distance in a New Digital-Material Environment? -- Female Modesty and the Male Gaze -- Drones as a Gendered Matter of Concern -- Conclusion: Thoughts On the Future of Drones and Sharing Our Environment With Them -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 9 Future Mobility Solutions? -- Introduction -- Ethnography as Ethics -- Autonomous Driving Cars -- Mobility as a Service -- Intervention -- Acknowledgements -- References |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- 2 Modelling the Future -- Introduction -- What Do Modellers Do? -- Uncertainties and Temporalities -- Futures, Projections and Predictions -- Foresight and Hindsight -- Talking Models - and Future-Oriented Methods -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- 3 Innovation Routes and Multi-Engineering in Entrepreneurial Science and the Anthropology of Futures -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The Invention of a Food Waste Digester -- Engineering and Entrepreneurship -- A Spin-Off and a Start-Up: Bringing Business Knowledge Into Engineering -- The Concept of Multi-Engineering |
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10 Eco-Sensory Technologies and the Surrealist Impulse |
| Subject |
Future, The
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Social prediction
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Technological forecasting
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Anthropology -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Waltorp, Karen
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Pink, Sarah
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Smith, Rachel C
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| ISBN |
9781000182729 |
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100018272X |
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