Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield

Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives

Adam Greenfield goes digging into the layers that constitute what we experience as smooth tech surfaceHe 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 synergise 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 -- Steve Poole * Guardian *
"Fascinating and scary.[Adam Greenfield] is very well informed about a whole host of technologies that we hear a lot about but (if you're like me) have a hard time grasping. He's a graceful writer, so even when he's angry he's eloquent without relying on emotional cues or nostalgia. More importantly, he thinks new technologies have a lot of potential - but if we fail to pay attention, all of its benefits will reinforce current power structures. What they call 'innovation' now that 'progress' has gone out of style is the entrenchment of power and wealth." -- Barbara Fister * Inside Higher Ed *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781784780456
ISBN 10	1784780456
Title	Radical Technologies
Author	Adam Greenfield
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	2018-05-29
Number of pages	368
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