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The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures

The Power of Maybes: Machines, Uncertainty and Design Futures

Marenko, Betti
Dilnot, Clive
Staszowski, Eduardo

Paperback

Series: Beyond the Modern

PhilosophyGeneral DesignGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1350377317
ISBN13: 9781350377318
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.23 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms, The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward.

What if uncertainty isn't a problem to solve, but a gift? This book reclaims hesitation, ambiguity and not-knowing as powerful tools to resist the rigid control of digital systems. Where machines seek to lock down knowledge, capture potential, dictate futures and foreclose possibilities, The Power of Maybes presents the radical idea that embracing uncertainty is essential in our age of planetary computation and offers ways of cultivating it as a form of resistance.

By reframing the unknown as a powerful resource, Marenko offers a bold approach to living and thinking alongside machines without surrendering to their grip. Blending philosophy, design and critical tech studies, it challenges dystopian fears and utopian hopes about technology, and champions new ways of being-open, ungridded, unscaled. It's a call to cultivate the unknown and nurture potential. For those ready to reclaim their agency in an algorithmic age, The Power of Maybes is a guide to living with oceanic uncertainty-and finding power in it.

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