一句话：通过民族志研究探讨新兴技术如何塑造可信未来，并追问未来软件应承载的价值、设计位置与协作方式。
论文关注人与其他物种、软件和硬件如何在未知未来共同生活，以及如何走向尊重人类价值与环境、可信且安全的未来。作者借助民族志研究，描绘人们在家庭与社区中对新兴技术未来日常生活的期待与想象，也考察技术从业者如何设想其职业未来。基于社会科学研究表明技术无法直接解决人与社会问题，论文追问技术应扮演何种角色，并讨论未来软件的设计价值、开发地点、由谁开发以及与谁协作。其核心主张是，软件需在生成可信未来条件的过程中重新定位，而非仅作为问题解决工具。
How will people, other species, software and hardware live together in as yet unknown futures? How can we work towards trusted and safe futures where human values and the environment are supported by emerging technologies? Research demonstrates that human values and everyday life priorities, ethics, routines and activities will shape our possible futures. I will draw on ethnographic research to outline how people anticipate and imagine everyday life futures with emerging technologies in their homes and neighbourhoods, and how technology workers envisage futures in their professional lives. If, as social science research shows, technologies cannot solve human and societal problems, what roles should they play in future life? What are the implications for future software? What values should underpin its design? Where should it be developed? By and in collaboration with whom? What role can software play in generating the circumstances for trusted futures?