Ethnographies of Practice, Visioning, and Foresight
Heather Moore, Pedro Sanches, Magnus Boman · 2014
A comparative study of three concluded projects is presented, to be used as a backdrop for a newly proposed project on critical adoption of 5G network infrastructure, middleware and service proposed solutions. Since the implementation of those proposed solutions lie 5-8 years into the future, forecasting is necessary and the three concluded projects act as a complementary backcasting exercise in this context. All three concluded projects focused on the development and envisioning of infrastructures for future digital services, all with the proviso that involvement of a wide range of stakeholders could be secured. They were all subject to a rapidly changing development, both on the side of engineering advances and on the side of societal views on such advances. Hence, the new project will have an emphasis on transparency of protocol design and participatory engagement of a greater range of perspectives.