@article {3157601,
	title = {Scenarios in a time of urgency: shifting temporality and technology \&rlm;},
	journal = {Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale},
	volume = {30},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {90-109},
	abstract = {This article explores the connection between technology and temporality, and discusses specifically scenario technology and the temporality of urgency, in the context of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It illustrates how, despite the inherent orientation toward the future potentiality in this technology, once an actual event occurs and the temporality of preparedness is overridden by a temporality of urgency, the scenario technology is adapted to the new temporality in terms of its form and content. In correspondence with the scholarship of {\textquoteleft}the anthropology of the future{\textquoteright}, the article focuses on changes in temporal orientations{\textendash}specifically, with a shift from a temporality of (future) preparedness to a temporal orientation of (immediate) urgency and how such a shift in temporality affects the technology of the scenario. Moving from preparing for potential future uncertainties to responding to an urgent\&nbsp;{\textellipsis}},
	url = {https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/saas/30/4/saas300407.xml},
	author = {‏Limor Samimian-Darash}
}
