The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed

Chatterton, Tim; Newmarch, Georgia

Abstract

The future is always created on an uneven foundation. In order to understand how we can create futures that do not exclude, isolate or exploit we have to understand how the future is ‘written’ in the present.
So, whilst there is some interest in looking at how, in the language of socio-technical transitions, the niche becomes part of the landscape, here we are more interested in how these minority elements are at the moment unequally distributed; how those inequalities are likely to be reproduced or altered in the future; and how those inequalities may actually determine what future or futures we arrive at.

Through exploring how existing differences create unequal futures, we can begin to understand how to look forward in a way which is beneficial to those who are often excluded from official narratives of change.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 23, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Mar 15, 2017
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jan 23, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 23, 2017
• Journal: Interactions
• Print ISSN: 0927-3360
• Publisher: Rodopi
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 42-45
• Keywords: future, equality, inequality, justice
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/899046
• Publisher URL: http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2017/the-future-is-already-here
• Related Public URLs: http://interactions.acm.org/
• Contract Date: Jan 23, 2017