Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future

<p><em>Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future</em> invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary public and everyday crisis through the prism of emerging technologies.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>