twentyforty : Utopias for a Digital Society

ISBN-13: 9783752935684 / Angielski

Benedikt Fecher; Bronwen Deacon; Timothée Ingen-Housz

Opis

What will tomorrow be made of? This very old question may have found a new kind of answer. Twentyforty - Utopias for a Digital Society is a collection of thirteen stories written by researchers working in a variety of fields ranging from artificial intelligence to law and geography. It is, first and foremost, an unlikely experiment in science communication: We invited scholars to discover a new interface with the world, namely that of their own imagination.This was not an obvious endeavor. The authors had to break free from the "peer prison" in which they normally speak and write. They had to take a leap of faith to look beyond the horizon, wrestle with the blank page, and bring back something new. Something born from the same inquisitive mind that had produced their own research but speaking to another kind of peer: you and me.Twentyforty is an experiment designed to explore new ways of translating scientific insights into storytelling. Only thus can we hope to make their societal implications available to debate and to make their insights available for the construction of tomorrow's world.

O autorze

Fecher, Benedikt
Benedikt Fecher initiated twentyforty as head of the research program Knowledge and Society at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Deacon, Bronwen
Bronwen Deacon is a research assistant at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in the research program Knowledge and Society. She functioned as project manager for twentyforty. Ingen-Housz, Timothée
Timothée Ingen-Housz is a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he teaches audiovisual conception and dramaturgy in the Department of Communication in Social & Economic Contexts. He joined twentyforty as a creative writing coach and has accompanied the project ever since. Sokolovska, Nataliia
Nataliia Sokolovska is a researcher and project manager in the research program Knowledge and Society at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. She was part of the twentyforty team from the beginning.