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Unlocking wise digital techno-futures : Contributions from the Degrowth community

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00107760" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00107760 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328719303362?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328719303362?via%3Dihub</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.102474" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.futures.2019.102474</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Unlocking wise digital techno-futures : Contributions from the Degrowth community

  • Original language description

    Many of the benefits anticipated from technology in the 1960s remain unrealized today. Alongside the optimism that drives technological development, more sceptical views that regard the promises of technology with reflection, mistrust, and even hostility, have emerged within Western societies. One such group is the Degrowth community, a heterogenous group of researchers and activists who question technological advancements that contribute to environmentally and socially harmful economic growth. In this vein, the movement critically observes the current hype surrounding digital technology, which seems to reflect a mantra of “the more digital technology, the better”. This paper presents perspectives that emerged from a dialogue among members of the Degrowth community, who were asked to imagine wise and unwise futures of digitalisation in 2068. Key concerns of unwise futures include increasing disconnection of humans from the natural environment and from one another as individuals, the use of digital technology for optimising the allocation of scarce resources to the benefit of the wealthy few, and authoritarian governance of technologies and life itself. Wise technological futures, in turn, allow people to freely access digital technologies that are convivial, just, environmentally sustainable, and guided by democratic deliberation. It remains controversial how far digital technologies and the interests and skills surrounding them can facilitate the principles of Degrowth, and the extent to which the harmful effects of digital technologies are already shaping social, ecological and technological futures. However, the dialogue clearly emphasised the need to develop more detailed socio-technological imaginaries that provide practically feasible alternatives.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA16-17978S" target="_blank" >GA16-17978S: Vulnerability and the Economy-Energy Nexus at the Sector Level: A Historic, Input-Output and CGE Analysis</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Futures

  • ISSN

    0016-3287

  • e-ISSN

    1873-6378

  • Volume of the periodical

    114

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    December

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    1-9

  • UT code for WoS article

    000498327200006

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85073075723