{"id":5563,"date":"2014-11-06T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2014-11-06T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T06:31:07","slug":"sshrc-stories-and-success-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"SSHRC Stories and Success 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had our annual celebration of SSHRC funded researchers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ualberta.ca\/en\/SSHRC2014.aspx\">SSHRC Stories and Success 2014<\/a>. I introduced the speakers and the theme.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Thank you Associate Vice-President Johnston. Good afternoon colleagues, it is my pleasure to introduce the theme for this year\u2019s event, which is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">Emerging Technologies: Competing Needs and Challenges<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">I should begin by confessing that as I was preparing for this, I had one of those Emperor\u2019s new clothes research moments when I realized I had no idea what really are the emerging technologies and no metric with which to evaluate my intuitions. It is easy to become convinced certain technologies one understands are emergent, but that doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t other more important trends or that one isn\u2019t blinded by ones commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">Fortunately it turned out that the Wikipedia actually has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_emerging_technologies\">list of emerging technologies<\/a> to keep me honest so I have chosen a few from that list as a way of introducing the theme and the researchers who will talk to it. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">An area where there are a number of emerging technologies coming now to market is display technology and virtual reality. From consumer 3-D televisions that may or may not take off to Virtual Reality head sets like the Oculus Rift that was recently bought by Facebook for 2 billion \u2013 there is a lot of change in how we can watch on the horizon. I recently had a chance to try out the Occulus Rift development headset with content from Canadian research and design teams and it is a good news bad news story. The technology works and is solid \u2013 it won\u2019t be long before it is brought to market, but there still is a nausea problem. Any of you who remember the VR excitement of 1990s will remember nausea was a problem then too. Maybe this is a re-emergining technology. More important than the technology, however, are the forms of engagement and immersion being imagined for the virtual and Patricia Boechler will be talking about <\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Third Dimension: Immersive Virtual Environments in Educational Research and Practice.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of particular interest to us here in Alberta is a second category of emerging technologies and those are the emerging energy technologies and resource extraction technologies. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released their 5<sup>th<\/sup> assessment report titled \u201cClimate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change.\u201d One of their conclusions for which there is high evidence and high agreement is that \u201cdeep cuts in emissions will require a diverse portfolio of policies, institutions, and technologies as well as changes in human behaviour and consumption patterns.\u201d That sounds like a call for social science and humanities research and partnerships. The University of Alberta is one of the places where badly needed interdisciplinary research is emerging around the challenges of the interaction of technologies, policies and human behavior. The story of climate change and how we mitigate its effects is ours to study and change and today we have Gordon Gow who will talk about <\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Stewarding Technology for Inclusive Innovation.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">The third emerging technology I want to mention goes under the rubric of the Internet of Things. The idea is that soon we will be able to afford to embed networked computing in everyday appliances like your refrigerator and associated consumer products like the milk that goes into the fridge. Then the fridge could keep track of the milk and automagically tell you when you needed to buy more. The conveniences are endless \u2013 I could use my smartphone to tell if I had left the stove on or really locked the door every morning before I turn back to check. But there is another side to such a network of things. Bruce Sterling, a science fiction writer, has an essay on the Internet of Things that argues that the story of the Internet of Things has an overlooked history (smart appliances crop up regularly), and that this time the story of convenience is being harnessed for economic surveillance. He rightly points out that we are not the customers of companies like Google and Facebook \u2013 the customers who pay Facebook for a service are the advertisers and those who buy data about us \u2013 . If all our appliances are capable of transmitting even more data about us, who will gather that data, who will mine it, benefit from it and sell the analysis? <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Kevin Haggerty, our second speaker thinks about surveillance issues broadly going beyond the hi-tech concerns I have and he will be talking about <i>Technologies of Nature: Surveillance at the Limits of the Human.<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <o:DocumentProperties>\n  <o:Revision>0<\/o:Revision>\n  <o:TotalTime>0<\/o:TotalTime>\n  <o:Pages>1<\/o:Pages>\n  <o:Words>817<\/o:Words>\n  <o:Characters>4658<\/o:Characters>\n  <o:Company>University of Alberta<\/o:Company>\n  <o:Lines>38<\/o:Lines>\n  <o:Paragraphs>10<\/o:Paragraphs>\n  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>5465<\/o:CharactersWithSpaces>\n  <o:Version>14.0<\/o:Version>\n <\/o:DocumentProperties>\n <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n  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Name=\"Bibliography\"\/>\n  <w:LsdException Locked=\"false\" Priority=\"39\" QFormat=\"true\" Name=\"TOC Heading\"\/>\n <\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!-- [if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-priority:99;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0in;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-ansi-language:EN-US;\n\tmso-fareast-language:JA;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In closing\u00a0I want to say a few words about how the social sciences and humanities are turning to think through emerging technologies. The Canadian science fiction writer William Gibson who coined the term cyberspace and helped us imagine that emerging technology in his 1984 novel Neuromancer has famously said that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">The future is already here \u2014 it&#8217;s just not very evenly distributed.\u201d Too often people outside the social sciences, arts and humanities think we are last to whom it is or should be distributed in the academy, but that is not the case historically nor today. If anything it is the social science, arts and humanities community that asks what technology is, how it emerges, how it is distributed, and how it can be used creatively. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">We are already deeply involved studying the emergence of technologies in the imagination and in use. We teach students to beware of the hype around technology and we teach them to use technologies creatively. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>What is emergent is a multifaceted and interdisciplinary engagement in research and teaching with technologies and their very idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had our annual celebration of SSHRC funded researchers, SSHRC Stories and Success 2014. I introduced the speakers and the theme. Thank you Associate Vice-President Johnston. Good afternoon colleagues, it is my pleasure to introduce the theme for this year\u2019s event, which is: Emerging Technologies: Competing Needs and Challenges I should begin by confessing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSHRC Stories and Success 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-philosophy-of-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}