The futures of computing and wisdom

Daniel Pargman, Elina Eriksson, Rob Comber, Benjamin John Kirman, Oliver Bates

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Abstract

There has been an increasing interest in discussing the consequences of the technologies we invent and study in HCI. Whether it is climate change, ethical computing, capitalist and neo-liberal models of commerce and society, grassroots movements, big data or alternative paradigms in distributed systems, this workshop will invite participants to explore these consequences and ask how we move forward with responsibility and new forms of knowing and knowledge. We invite participants to join us, as we cast forward fifty years to 2068 to imagine the future of wisdom, and to reflect on how we got there. By writing Fictional Abstracts, an abstract from a research paper yet to be written, we will unpick critical tensions in the advancement of computing over the next decades. The workshop will develop perspectives on the futures of computing and critically reflect on the assumptions, methods, and tools for enabling (and disabling) such futures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNordiCHI 2018
Subtitle of host publicationRevisiting the Life Cycle - Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
PublisherACM
Pages960-963
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-6437-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Keywords

  • Design fiction
  • Ethics
  • Fictional abstracts
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Social action
  • Social change
  • Sustainability
  • Wisdom

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