“Speedbird” has been the callsign for aircraft belonging to BOAC and its various predecessors and descendents since 1939.

To me the Speedbird symbolizes many things: the lost glamour of travel, the high Modernist moment in design and architecture, and above all, a time when Western culture still believed in a future.

Who writes Speedbird?

My name is Adam Greenfield. I’m a writer and consultant on issues at the intersection of design, technology and culture, and an instructor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications program, where I teach a class called Urban Computing with Kevin Slavin.

My first book, Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, can be purchased from Amazon.

I live and work in New York City with my wife, Nurri Kim.

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