1st Edition

Can We Trust Technology?

By Sarah Pink, Emma Quilty Copyright 2025
112 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Can We Trust Technology? examines the contemporary crisis of trust, where people’s trust in organisations and in emerging technologies is decreasing. As governments, industry organisations and research funders are investing millions in the quest to design technologies people will trust, this book asks if it is plausible to think tech workers and research designers can produce trustworthy... Read more

Introduction

1: The Trust Conundrum

2: Thinking Trust

3: Stakeholders in Trust

4: Trust as a Connecting Thread

5: Trust in the Everyday Present and Future

6: Towards Trusted Futures

Biography

Sarah Pink is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and FUTURES Hub at Monash University, Australia. Her recent books include Emerging Technologies/Life at the Edge of the Future (Routledge 2023) and the co-authored Design Ethnography (Routledge 2022).

Emma Quilty is a research fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for The Elimination of Violence Against Women at Monash University, Australia. Emma’s writing explores technology, power and gender and has been published in AI & Society, Mobilities, and Senses & Society.