Exploring the Future of Information
Sharing with Science Fiction Prototyping
Finally: Together
What
Did We Learn?
From the stories you have
presented (after the workshop)
I will be able to summarise
the core activities and
operational challenges raised
within the narratives
of future social farming
Group 1
Overarchi Iterative data
ng Themes
Technologies
Utopian Future
perspective
Robots and analytics
about data gathered on
citizens
Extracts facts from the
body
City wide solution
(high/ low tech
solutions)
Nano Robots
Waste recycling
Data for predictive city
patterns
Pooh food
Bio social cycle
Career paths
Individual data for
future prediction (city
management)
Bio finger prints
Child care
Group 2
Overarching
Themes
Iterative data
Technologies
Brave New World
Dystopia
Devolution of disease
Cities of disease
Predictive data
Health care
Bio city franchise
Genomic technology
If unwilling move to a
disease city forced to
move to reservation
Group 3
Overarching
Themes
Iterative data
Technologies
Utopian
Illness as an asset
Mental health
Using compulsive
behaviour to carry out
mundane duties of high
security firms (e.g.
chemical manufacture/
disease centres e.t.c)
Internet -Enabled
labour harnessing OCD
peer to peer support
Group 4
Overarching
Themes
Iterative data
Technologies
Distopian and Utopian
Through the loss of
language people
communicate via their
clothing
Smart Clothing
Communication
Clothing picks up
moods queues and
displays colours to
represent to others
Predictive/ reactive data
gathering
Transportation
Can be in the same
place as others through
physical representation
via clothing- freeing up
city space
Data Image projection
via clothing
(teleporting?)
Health
Wrapping up : Exploring the Future of
Information Sharing with Science
Fiction Prototyping