Radical technologies: everyday life device

Wherever we turn our eyes, brilliant new devices promise to completely transform our lives. But what cost? In this timely and frank book dedicated to our information era, the leading technological thinker Adam Greenfield makes us reconsider our relations with network objects, services and spaces. We are already dependent on the smartphone in almost all aspects of our life. We are told that innovations - from augmented reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous droots and unmanned cars - will simplify life, make it more convenient and productive. The 3D -first promises unprecedented control over the form and distribution of matter, and the blockchain promises to revolution in everything - from accounting and exchange of values ​​to the most prosaic daily things. Meanwhile, incredibly complex algorithmic systems act unnoticed, changing the economy, transforming the fundamental conditions of politics and even offering new definitions of what it means to be a person.
Having successfully colonized everyday life, these radical technologies now set opportunities that will be available to us in subsequent years. How do they work? What calls put before us as individuals and societies? Who gets benefits from this? "Radical technologies" raise all these questions and encourage to think about how to influence this process, on which our common future depends