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Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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power.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
He wrote a program in Python—a more flexible language that was becoming popular for web-based programs—that would act as a “spider,” so called because it would crawl the web for data.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
appetizers for the brain.
Tom Vanderbilt • You May Also Like
Its uncannily effective Internet search product had changed the way people accessed information, changed the way they thought about information.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
In March 2008, Stewart Brand, the famous Merry Prankster and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, stepped out of the Hawaiian jungle and gave me a cryptic recommendation before fading back into the shadows:
Daniel Suarez • Daemon
In Search of a Better Alternative