A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives
Adam Greenfield has worked as a lead information architect for the Tokyo office of internet services consultancy Razorfish, head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia headquarters in Helsinki, and Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities Centre of the London School of Economics. He has been an instructor in Urban Design at the Bartlett, University College London. His books include Everyware, Urban Computing and its Discontents, and the 2013 pamphlet Against the Smart City.
Adam Greenfield goes digging into the layers that constitute what
we experience as smooth tech surface. He unsettles and repositions
much of that smoothness. Radical Technologies is brilliant and
scary
*Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions*
We exist within an ever-thickening web of technologies whose
workings are increasingly opaque to us. In this illuminating and
sometimes deeply disturbing book, Adam Greenfield explores how
these systems work, how they synergize with each other, and the
resultant effects on our societies, our politics, and our psyches.
This is an essential book.
*Brian Eno*
A tremendously intelligent and stylish book on the ‘colonization of
everyday life by information processing’ calls for resistance to
rule by the tech elite... a landmark primer and spur to more
informed and effective opposition.
*Guardian*
A systematic analysis of the hazards posed by the most
revolutionary of new technologies... his analyses are extremely
proficient at uncovering the risks and contradictions that our
enthusiasm for new technology has occluded... a vital
counter-statement to such pervasive utopianism
*Public Seminar*
Does an excellent job of introducing non - specialist readers to
some of the game-changing technologies that are transforming our
lives and that are set to affect the social, economic, political
and cultural evolution of humanity... a very valuable contribution
to the discussion about what that future should look like.
*Morning Star*
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