ABSTRACT
In a world of uncertainties anthropologists are needed to contest and moderate dominant hopes for and beliefs in technological solutions to societal problems. These views pervade across industry, government and other domains. This chapter argues that this context requires new future-focussed anthropology, or order to complicate the predictive stance of existing narratives. Moreover, this should be an interdisciplinary and interventional anthropology, which goes beyond the critical stance of traditional anthropology to open up possibilities through which to envision and participate in directing efforts towards other human futures. The chapter explores this with reference to the anthropology of emerging technologies, and accounts for how this approach has developed as part of the author’s career trajectory across different projects and interdisciplinary collaborations.
