I got to this book because it was mentioned by Mark Kingwell on RN's Philosopher Zone's podcast dedicated to the "hipster philosopher". Answering a question on the speed of time and how it just seems to be standing now because of its actual rate of becoming, Kingwell mentioned the methaphor of th...
I must be an idiot but if this passes for intellectualism these days, I'm happy to remain that way. Not one thing in this book provides "food for thought" or an explanation of anything going on in today's world. It is a collection (I use that term loosely) of nonsensical essays that mostly detail...
Not so much a treatise on coding, more a sociological examination of the effects of the internet.Here are some quotes:Political organizers who believed the Internet would consolidate their constituencies find that net petitions and self-referential blogging now serve as substitutes for action.A n...
This book opens with an interesting story, almost a parable. The author was mugged outside his apartment and subsequently used a local discussion board to warn others. Instead of support, he received criticism from local people worried that this sort of posting would reduce property prices. It's ...
SOCIAL Do Not Sell Your Friends In spite of its many dehumanizing tendencies, digital media is still biased toward the social. In the ongoing coevolution between people and technologies, tools that connect us thrive—and tools that don’t connect us soon learn to. We must remember that the bias of ...
Professional traders face similar challenges in the digitized environment. Like those in other disrupted industries, many finance workers have been replaced by networks and computers. Human stockbrokers, in addition to providing access to markets, used to be responsible fo...