The Dark Side of Emergent Technologies
Emergent technologies have already altered our lives profoundly and promise to do so even more in the near future \u2013 from the smart phones most of us carry around to 3D printing to augmented reality, like Pok\xe9mon Go.\xa0 But these innovations are seen as a fact of life \u2013 part of the march of progress \u2013 rather than something that comes with a steep price, and that we should have political say over. Urbanist Adam Greenfield talks about the hidden costs of these technologies. And Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro discusses the dangers of a leftwing environmentalism that focuses on overpopulation and civilizational collapse.\nResources:\nAdam Greenfield, Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life Verso, 2017\nSalvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Ecology, Soils, and the Left: An Ecosocial Approach Palgrave MacMillan, 2014\nThe post The Dark Side of Emergent Technologies appeared first on KPFA.