![]() ![]() ![]() "Fascinating and scary… 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. a landmark primer and spur to more informed and effective opposition Steve Poole, Brian EnoĪ tremendously intelligent and stylish book on the ‘colonization of everyday life by information processing’ calls for resistance to rule by the tech elite. In this illuminating and sometimes deeply disturbing book Adam Greenfield explores how these systems work, how they synergise with each other, and the resultant effects on our societies, our politics, and our psyches. We exist within an ever-thickening web of technologies whose workings are increasingly opaque to us. Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions. Radical Technologies is brilliant and scary. He unsettles and repositions much of that smoothness. Adam Greenfield goes digging into the layers that constitute what we experience as smooth tech surface. ![]()
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