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Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm—which hashtags, memes, or formats need to be followed.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
this idea that tools can sometimes drive human behavior became known as technological determinism.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
As technology revolutionizes the tools we use, it also antiquates our laws, reshapes our morals, and alters our perceptions.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Philip E. Agre
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Direct, unfiltered exposure to said flumes—the torrent of porn, propaganda, and death threats, 99.9 percent of which were algorithmically generated and never actually seen by human eyes—was relegated to a combination of AIs and Third World eyeball farms, which was to say huge warehouses in hot places where people sat on benches or milled around gaz
... See moreNeal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
This spirited, intelligent, anarchic Eve reminds me of H. G. Wells’s Ann Veronica, an exemplary New Woman of 1909.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
inside the case, and they are now further dematerializing as a consequence of their soaring capacities.