Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield
Radical Technologies, Adam Greenfield
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Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life

Author: Adam Greenfield

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 12 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2020


Synopsis

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.

We're told that innovations—from augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make life easier, more convenient, and more productive. 3D printing promises unprecedented control over the form and distribution of matter, while the blockchain stands to revolutionize everything from the recording and exchange of value to the way we organize the mundane realities of the day to day. And, all the while, fiendishly complex algorithms are operating quietly in the background, reshaping the economy, transforming the fundamental terms of our politics, and even redefining what it means to be human.

Having successfully colonized everyday life, these radical technologies are now conditioning the choices available to us in the years to come. Greenfield's timely guide clarifies the scale and nature of the crisis we now confront—and offers ways to reclaim our stake in the future.

About Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the place where technology, design, and politics intersect with everyday urban life. Formerly Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities research center of the London School of Economics, and an instructor in urban design at both New York University and the Bartlett, University College London, his books include the bestselling Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, Against the Smart City, and Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

If I had known that this book was published by Verso, I probably would not have bothered buying it. Buying a Verso book is like buying a book from the Ignatius Press. You pretty well know what you are going to get and it helps being a true believer to get maximum enjoyment from it. In this case, Gree......more

This well-written book brings home an important message: capitalism is always seeking to exploit fresh resources. Now it’s our daily life that is being commodified. Our ‘digital exhaust fumes’ are sequestered, cleaned, packaged and sold for myriads of purposes we are unaware of. The risk is that thi......more