This book deals with the connection between media and the future.
It is about the imagination of futuristic media and what this says
about the present, but it also shows how media are imagined as
means to control the future. The book begins by describing
different theories of the evolution of media and by exploring how
this evolution is tied to expectations regarding the future. The
authors discuss the theories of imagination and how the imagination
of media futures operates. To do so, they analyse four concrete
examples: the imaginations once related to interactive television
and how they were performed in an important piece of media art;
those on "ubiquitous computing," which remain present today; those
on three-dimensional, especially holographic, displays that are
prevalent everywhere in cinema, and lastly the contemporary
imaginations on quantum computing and how they have been enacted in
science fiction. The book appeals to readers interested in the
question of how our present imagines its technological futures.
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