Book interview: 'The Smartness Mandate' by Orit Halpern
Smartness, the drive towards ubiquitous computing, has gone beyond technological horizon-scanning to shaping the way we live today, says Orit Halpern.
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Does "Smart" Always Make Sense? Robert Mitchell's The Smartness Mandate Tackles Our Global Obsession
Who doesn’t dream of owning a house that automatically closes the windows when it starts to rain, or a car that copes with traffic so you don’t have to? The science fiction of yesterday is today’s reality, and even better days are on the horizon. Such is the promise of “smartness.” It’s touted as the answer to all of humanity’s problems, a path not just to prosperity but to the very survival of our species. Is a smart future inevitable, though? What would a world constructed by smartness look like, and is it the best future we can imagine?
Source: duke.edu