02774cam a2200337 i 4500 991106407616806196 20250709090618.0 170316s2017 enk g b 001 0 eng 2017011127 9781784780456 (UTL)11395930-01utoronto_inst (SIRSI)11395930 (OCoLC)951753168 (OCoLC)990064798 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX ERASA OCLCF NDD YDX IGA CaOTV CaOTUIRN eng pcc QA76.5915 .G745 2017 Greenfield, Adam author 7514 Radical technologies : the design of everyday life / Adam Greenfield. London ; New York : Verso, 2017. 359 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Smartphone: the networking of the self — The internet of things: a planetary mesh of perception and response — Augmented reality: an interactive overlay on the world — Digital fabrication: towards a political economy of matter — Cryptocurrency: the computational guarantee of value — Blockchain beyond Bitcoin: a trellis for posthuman institutions — Automation: the annihilation of work — Machine learning: the algorithmic production of knowledge — Artificial intelligence: the eclipse of human discretion — Radical technologies: the design of everyday life. Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and self-driving cars, even as we use augmented-reality applications to interact with things that aren't quite there. Now 3D printing offers us unprecedented fine-grained control over the form and distribution of matter, while the blockchain promises to remake the way we record and exchange value. And all the while, fiendishly complex algorithmic systems are operating quietly, reshaping the economy, transforming the fundamental terms of our politics, and even beginning to etch away at what it means to be human. 00Just how did these things come to be? How do they work? What (and whose) values do they reproduce? And what kind of choices do they present us with? "Radical Technologies" raises all of these questions to the surface and provokes us to ask what we might want to do with them now, when we might still be able to shape their impact on our shared future. Ubiquitous computing 5863 Electronic data processing Social aspects 25712 Technological innovations Social aspects 7506 Telematics 25713 Work design 25714 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-07-09 0 QA76.5915 GRE B05789 2025-07-09 1 2025-07-09 1 4839 4839