Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life - Softcover

Greenfield, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784780456 ISBN 13: 9781784780456

Verlag: Verso, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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 reevaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.

Having successfully colonised everyday life, radical technologies - from smartphones, blockchain, augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to 3D printing, autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars - are now conditioning the choices available to us in the years to come. How do they work? What challenges do they present to us, as individuals and societies? Who benefits from their adoption? In answering these questions, 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.

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Previously a rock critic, bike messenger and psychological operations specialist in the US Army, <b>Adam Greenfield</b> spent over a decade working in the design and development of networked digital information technologies, as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of internet services consultancy Razorfish, Independent User-Experience Designer and Head of Design Direction for Service and User-Interface Design at Nokia headquarters in Helsinki.<br><br> Selected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics, he has taught in the Urban Design program of the Bartlett, University College London, and in New York University&rsquo;s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His books include <i>Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing</i>, <i>Urban Computing and Its Discontents</i>, and the bestselling <i>Against the Smart City</i>.

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• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784780456
• ISBN 13: 9781784780456
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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