ABSTRACT
What is hope and what has it come to mean in our contemporary times of uncertainty, hype and crisis? How might we create new shared ways to hope towards ethical and inclusive futures with emerging technologies? In this chapter, I outline the diverse and sometimes conflicting modes of hope that come about around emerging technologies. While in dominant industry and government narratives hope is cast as part of an end-point solution, whereby it is invested in the idea that emerging technologies will provide solutions to societal problems, like human safety and climate change. In everyday life, hope is constituted differently, as a process connected with possibilities and uncertainties, rather than associated with a particular end. I propose that by bringing together and creating new dialogues between societal and institutional hopes with everyday hope and the values that are connected to it, we can create a shared story and a hopeful trajectory forward.
