Jan
17th
Tue
17th
There hasn’t been a ground-breaking new vision of technological futures in at least 10 years, probably closer to 15; nearly all of the technological scenarios talked about at present derive in an incremental, evolutionary way from the scenarios of more than a decade ago. The closest thing to an emerging paradigm of technological futures concerns the role of sensors and mobile cameras in terms of privacy, surveillance, and power. It’s still fairly evolutionary (again, I could cite examples from Transhuman Space), but more importantly, it’s much more about the social uses of technologies than about the technologies themselves.
