Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield is an urbanist and writer with a particular interest in how computation impacts our public built environments. He’s worked at Nokia, started his own urban design practice called Urbanscale, and taught urban studies at ITP and the Bartlett School of Architecture of University College London.
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On the Posthuman Everyday
Pervasive Computing • Technology • Everyday
The posthuman everyday is a world in which technological movements have been assembled to override human discretion, judgement, and intention with the needs of our technological systems.
Note: The above summary is in my own words.
Radical Technologies • 2017
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On Being Critical of Agendas Underlying Technology
Technology
Technological development always advances a particular agenda. Critically examine what is being promoted and who benefits most from it.
Note: The above summary is in my own words.
Radical Technologies • 2017
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On the Force of Belief in Technology
Technology
The model of the world that technology creates often doesn’t match reality. But despite this fact, our belief that it does is enough to impact how it shapes our lives.
Note: The above summary is in my own words.
Radical Technologies • 2017
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On the Consequences of Technology on Shared Urban Life
Technology • Urbanism
Look out for the transformations that a technology imposes on our broader experiences of public life, because it is often here that we pay an unacknowledged cost.
Note: The above summary is in my own words.
Radical Technologies • 2017
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On Developing A New Theory of Technological Change
Technology
If we hope to take a hand in shaping our future everyday, all of us need to take a more active understanding of emerging technology and develop a better theory of technological change.
Note: The above summary is in my own words.
Radical Technologies • 2017