Artical：Radical technologies: The design of everyday life (2017) Adam Greenfield.
This chapter mainly talk about the smartphone, the universal all-but indispensable mediator of everyday life.
Summary
1.How smartphones work as mediator.
As the most frequent use of intelligent devices, smartphones help us open the door to outside information, and deliver our information to other companies in turn.
2.smartphones transformed human behaviours into data.
3.smartphones already altered our behaviours.
We used to listen to music in the CD shop, it took time to select the albums you like, but can not say you do not enjoy it, also we raised our hands to get a taxi in old days, but now Uber replaced this behaviour.
4. The global trend toward dematerialization is unmistakable
This single platform swallowed the thing in your pocket, also swallow physical stuff around us, phone booth no longer exist in the city, so as
The industry behind smartphone, how it works and they are assembled.
Telephones seem amazing, but from the perspective of affordance, the only function is touch, the thing you can tap, swipe, drag, pinch, and spread, just some little dance of finger. As a machine," a smartphone is fundamentally a sandwich of aluminosilicate glass, polycarbonate and aluminium sized to sit comfortably in the adult hand.''(said in the article).This thing appears very fragile. Does this mean your life will be completely disrupted if the phone falls off the table?
Review
This article makes think, more and more designers would attach an application into their design, wrapped it as "smart", maybe, it's irresponsible.
This is an increasing tendency that we use our phone to take care of everything, like our payment method which is already be replaced by phone. Imagining an extreme situation in the future, you took out the phone to open the door when you entered, control the light by your phone, you are hungry so you order a food on your phone, you want to drink water, you have to use your phone to enable the kettle, all your movements will be recorded by your phone, no matter how little they are.
It seems creepy, but no one can guarantee would not happen, when the phone first came to our life, we thought it's just a machine for distant communication. Maybe decades later we would miss the way we open the door with keys, rather than face ID or fingerprints.
The more we rely on technology, the easier it is to be controlled by technology. Countless times of daily life interrupted by mobile phone notifications, we believe human needs define the functions of a smartphone, but if we think it in reverse order, do we give up that behaviour and physical stuff cheerfully? When some things become overwhelming, we are harder to stand still, we are forced to adjust ourself to fit in.
Like my grandfather, he still uses a mobile phone of a very old generation, a new phone will take a great many time to learn it, "Chinese-style payments" based on mobile Internet and e-wallets. So some stores reject to receive cash in case of counterfeit currency, so my grandfather should choose other stores.
This society like a giant washing machine, When the washing machine spins fast, those who can't join the new technology will get rid of society like those drops of water.
What if someday technologies betrayed us, use the date we gave then to attack us? On the artical<On Weaponised Design> told us this already happens.
REFFERENCE：
Adam Greenfield. 2017. Radical Technologies The Design of Everyday Life, New York: Verso Books.
Greenfield S. 2013. Screen Technologies. Available at: http://www.susangreenfield.com/science/screen-technologies/
Golden Krishna.2015.The Best Interface Is No Interface:The best interface is no interface: The simple path to brilliant technology. New Riders.
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