Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
the subject of digital technology and spaces focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might do to us.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Yahoo and AOL are already has-beens. They operate under the old rules. They control content and distribution and think they can own customers, relationships, and attention. They create destinations and have the hubris to think customers should come to them. They spend a huge portion of their revenue on marketing to get those people there and work h... See more
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
Unbundling Journalism | Chris Best on Venture Stories
podcasts.apple.comBeyond the Link Tax: Journalism and the Changing Nature of the Internet
Philip Moscovitchhalifaxexaminer.caIn 1985, the great technology critic Neil Postman wrote, “to be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”17 The corollary is also true: to have no program t
... See moreEzra Klein • Abundance
His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The idea there is “news of the day” was created by the telegraph, which first made it possible to move decontextualized information over great distances at great speed. But “news of the day” is a figment of our imagination, it exists only because of communication speeds.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
changes to the policy map erased the legal boundary lines that had historically kept the owners of private communications infrastructure from simultaneously engaging in adjacent lines of business, including advertising and the production of news and entertainment programming