ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers anthropologists and other social scientists concrete and innovative methods to unlock the imagination to wonder, ponder, anticipate and speculate about what might come to pass in the future. It focuses on how to explore the interior life in which human beings experience wonder, fear, love, hate and uncertainty. The book describes how design processes are driven by a necessary anticipation of complex futures in which technology-makers imagine what is to come when they engage in technological worldmaking. It also focuses on digital technologies. The book demonstrates how the use of smart phones and video cameras supports the widespread representation of uncertainty and allows her research subjects, young Muslim women in Copenhagen, to speculate about their future.