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Anticipatory Anthropology and the Telemicroelectronic Revolution: A Preliminary Report From Silicon Valley
Author(s) -
Textor Robert B.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1985.16.1.05x0848p
Subject(s) - futures contract , ethnography , sociocultural evolution , sociology , anthropology , sociocultural anthropology , educational anthropology , applied anthropology , ecological anthropology , dimension (graph theory) , social science , anthropology of art , history , contemporary art , performance art , financial economics , economics , art history , mathematics , pure mathematics
The proposal is made that an anticipatory dimension to anthropology should be developed for the purposes of increasing anthropology's capacity to: (1) explain sociocultural change, and (2) contribute to the making of effective proactive public policy. Anticipatory anthropology is needed particularly for the study of rapid change processes, often technology‐driven, such as the Telemicroelectronic Revolution. Steps in the ongoing development of anticipatory anthropology are illustrated by a quasi‐ethnographic study of the introduction of microcomputers into schools near Silicon Valley, California. ANTICIPATORY ANTHROPOLOGY; COMPUTERS; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; FUTURES RESEARCH; POLICY‐MAKING.