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Sociotechnical imaginaries of a secure future

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DOI: 10.1186/s40309-021-00176-1

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Security studies; Futures studies; Security foresight; Security technology; Scenario method; Public security; Sociotechnical development; Sociotechnical imaginaries; Technization of security

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  1. Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation [2012-2017/2019]

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This article examines the role of technology in public security in Germany and presents two future scenarios for Germany in 2035. These scenarios are considered as competing sociotechnical imaginaries, with security technologies influencing social change and vice versa. The analysis identifies ten key factors that impact security technology use and lead to the scenarios "To Be Ahead" and "Turn Back The Clock."
The article examines the increasingly important role played by technology in the domain of public security in Germany, illustrating its effects on social life. In order to illuminate developments that govern the adoption of security technologies and render them in their dependencies comprehensible, we present two plausible and consistent future scenarios for Germany 2035. Following Jasanoff and Kim, these scenarios are theoretically conceived as two competing sociotechnical imaginaries which implies different trajectories for shaping the future. In these imaginaries, security technologies condition social change, and vice versa, in a mutually interdependent process. On the basis of current literature in tandem with a structured scenario development process, we condensed the present sociotechnical imaginaries into two tangible future scenarios for the field of public security, illustrating its effects on how we live as a society. Our overarching goal is to identify key factors that will mediate future developments, and, by extension, to facilitate discussion on the type of future we find collectively desirable. The analysis of impact factors resulted in ten key factors that play a crucial role for the use of security technologies and serve as a leverage for shaping the future. Projections of these factors lead to two narrative scenarios To Be Ahead and Turn Back The Clock.

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