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Short abstract:

This proposal aims to address the conceptual framing and entanglements around the idea of quantum technologies and communication makings and doings as an interesting scenario to understand an infrastructure ontological experiment.

Long abstract:

The study of ‘emerging technologies’ paves the way for the exploration of an entangled terrain where technoscientific futures and promises articulate, confront and rearrange themselves in a dynamic way. Futures are not given nor singularly defined but constitute processes and moving entities, unironically, being done in the present. Wondering about the future global challenges posed by the emergence of such technologies bring us closer to set an eye on the study of their present makings and doings, hoping to address in a more informed way such challenges. On that note, a diversity of STS approaches to multiplicity, performativity, enactment an choreographic possibilities of ontologies have been milestones in understanding how their practical nature is “about how worlds are concretely made, conjoined or transformed by the co-evolving relations of multiple agents” (2015). In this case, tracking quantum technologies/communication in their present-making/doing can help us address the also dynamic dimensions of ontologies, allowing us to imagine even emerging ones. By understanding quantum technologies as places where both the careful design and the unintended responses co-exist on the same plane and fold onto themselves producing new worlds, this proposal is a conceptual approach on how emerging technologies and innovation serve as a possible settings where it is possible to explore the conjunction of ontologies, experiments and infrastructures in the context of future makings and the promising prophecy of information and cybersecurity as grand societal challenges.

Jensen, C. B., & Morita, A. (2015). Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 1, 81–87.