Element 2, examines one emerging technology and one foresight method (e.g. horizon scanning, mapping, expert consultation, speculative fiction etc.) related to material covered in class. In Element 2, the 2,000 word future scenario, students will apply the foresight method to the emerging technology to develop their own forecast of a plausible digital future for that technology. In order to achieve the learning outcomes, students should include 4 sections in their future scenario:
1.Introduction: Contextualize the selected emerging technology.
Chosen technology: algortihms – please use as much of the highlighted citations as possible. You do not need to add these to bibliography as I can do it myself, please just mark the used citations in bold so I know where to add the references. Below the higlighted notes there is some other citations about big data and artificial inteligence – feel free to use as it is somewhat related to algorithms.
2. Foresight method: Introduce and explain your foresight method (e.g. interviews, citizen panel, expert interviews, horizon scanning, mapping, backcasting, speculative fiction, etc.) and apply it to your case. – choose whichever method is easiest for you. You do not have to go in debth as it is a short essay just use the structure and key principles and describe the method. Please use some quotes i put below
3. The future scenario of your case.
Imagined future based on research about algorithms – can be however many years in the future as you see fit
4. Reflection: Review and reflect on the method, the emerging technology, your scenario and futures thinking.
Foresight:
(Miller, 2018)
– How does the future affect the present?
“The future does not exist in the present but anticipation does. The form the future takes in the present is anticipation.”
“Taking an anticipatory systems (AS) perspective on the integration of the future into the present is the starting point for the formulation of a framework for connecting the theories and practices of using-the-future.”
– anticipatory assumptions (AA)
“Conscious human AA include choices about what kind of future to anticipate and which methods to use to think about a particular kind of future. AA, as will become clear in later pages, may even be applied to non-conscious anticipation.”
– Futures Literacy (FL)
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