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Radical Technologies The Design Of Everyday Life
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Description: 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 3 D 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.
Title: Radical Technologies The Design Of Everyday Life
Author(s): Greenfield Adam
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784780456
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 5/29/2018
Category: Impact Of Science & Technology On Society
Description: 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 3 D 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.
Title: Radical Technologies The Design Of Everyday Life
Author(s): Greenfield Adam
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784780456
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 5/29/2018
Category: Impact Of Science & Technology On Society