Adam “Everyware” Greenfield — a sensible skeptic about radio-frequency ID tags whose writing on the subject is bang-on fascinating — is presenting the material from his next book, “The City Is Here For You To Use,” at NYC’s Cooper Union on April 9.
Monday April 9, 2007 6:30pm, The Great Hall of the Cooper Union
7 E 7th Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues, New York City
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.Over the past few years the “computer” has begun to disappear into the fabric of everyday life, its power to collect, store, process and represent information diffusing into the objects and surfaces around us. Things as ordinary and seemingly familiar as running shoes, elevators and lampposts have been reimagined as networked devices, invested with unexpected new abilities. Meanwhile, the phones we carry have become ever more powerful “remote controls for our lives.”
Proponents and enthusiasts argue that no domain of human behavior will be untouched by this transformation, but relatively little thought has been given to specifically how these changes might unfold at the scale of the city. How will the advent of a truly ubiquitous computing change our urban places – both the way they’re built, and the way we live them? In this new talk, Everyware author Adam Greenfield tries to wrap his head around this dynamic set of conditions, to clarify what’s at stake and to offer some potential frameworks for building humane and livable cities in the age of ambient informatics.
See also:
Ethical guidelines for a world of invisible, endless machines
Ethics and RFIDs – video of Adam “Everyware” Greenfield