Radical Technologies

Greenfield, Adam. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. UK/USA: Verso, 2017.

Called by the publisher, "A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives." From the blurb:

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.[1]

In the view of the on-line Wikipedia contributor, Greenfield's take on the influence of technologies such as blockchain and digital fabrication is generally [...] pessimistic [...]. He is concerned about the atomisation of society as experience becomes individualised ["atomized"?], and about how we are unwittingly handing over vast amounts of power to faceless corporations with very little debate [...] about what we actually want from technology. Handles topics from smartphones to artificial intelligence (AI).[2]

RDE, finishing, 23Aug21