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<div class="edition-single--book-title">Radical Technologies</div>
<div class="edition-single--book-subtitle">The Design of Everyday
Life</div>
<div class="edition-single--book-contributors"><span>by <a
href="https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2168-adam-greenfield">Adam
Greenfield</a></span></div>
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<div class="details">368 pages / May 2018 / 9781784780456</div>
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<p>A field manual to the technologies that are changing our
lives</p>
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<p>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.<br>
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We already depend on the smartphone to navigate every aspect
of our existence. We’re told that innovations—from
augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to
autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make
life easier, more convenient and more productive. 3D printing
promises unprecedented control over the form and distribution
of matter, while the blockchain stands to revolutionize
everything from the recording and exchange of value to the way
we organize the mundane realities of the day to day. And, all
the while, fiendishly complex algorithms are operating quietly
in the background, reshaping the economy, transforming the
fundamental terms of our politics and even redefining what it
means to be human.<br>
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Having successfully colonized everyday life, these radical
technologies 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.</p>
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<h2 class="edition-single--book-reviews-header">Reviews</h2>
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<p>“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.”</p>
<p class="byline">– <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/13/radical-technologies-adam-greenfield-review?CMP=twt_b-gdnreview"><em>Guardian</em></a></p>
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<p>“Adam Greenfield goes digging into the layers that
constitute what we experience as smooth tech surface. He
unsettles and repositions much of that smoothness. <i>Radical
Technologies</i> is brilliant and scary”</p>
<p class="byline">– Saskia Sassen, Columbia University,
author of <i>Expulsions</i></p>
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<p>“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
synergize with each other, and the resultant effects on
our societies, our politics, and our psyches. This is an
essential book.”</p>
<p class="byline">– Brian Eno</p>
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<p>“A systematic analysis of the hazards posed by the most
revolutionary of new technologies … his analyses are
extremely proficient at uncovering the risks and
contradictions that our enthusiasm for new technology has
occluded … a vital counter-statement to such pervasive
utopianism.”</p>
<p class="byline">– <a
href="http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/07/we-can-remember-it-for-you-wholesale/#.WXsDpIWKwot"><em>Public
Seminar</em></a></p>
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<p>“Does an excellent job of introducing non - specialist
readers to some of the game-changing technologies that are
transforming our lives and that are set to affect the
social, economic, political and cultural evolution of
humanity... a very valuable contribution to the discussion
about what that future should look like.”</p>
<p class="byline">– <a
href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-73c5-Game-changers-could-be-great#.WZqtVYWKwot"><em>Morning
Star</em></a></p>
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<p>“A work of remarkable breadth and legibility that acts as
both a technical design guide and a sharp political
critique of the networked products that are reshaping
society.”</p>
<p class="byline">– Scot Ludlam, <em>The Monthly</em></p>
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<p>“Provides a grounded guide, a cautionary tale in which
each chapter walks readers through another layer of a
dazzling and treacherous landscape.”</p>
<p class="byline">– Jennifer Howard, <em>Times Literary
Supplement</em></p>
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<p>“Of all the books I’ve read this year, one that really
stood out was <i>Radical Technologies</i> by Adam
Greenfield, which describes some of the ways innovation is
transforming our daily lives … Change is inevitable. The
big question is, How do we retool ourselves? How do we
function in this new, utterly transparent world? What are
the social consequences of what we are experiencing?”</p>
<p class="byline">– Indra Nooyi, <a
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-business-leaders-read-in-2017-1513107964"><em>Wall
Street Journal [Books of the Year, 2017]</em></a></p>
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<p>“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.”</p>
<p class="byline">– Barbara Fister, <a
href="https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/informed-dissent"><em>Inside
Higher Ed</em></a></p>
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