From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen - The MIT Press

From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen - The MIT Press: From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen examines how this increasingly open, collaborative, and personalizable technology is shaping not just our social interactions but new kinds of civic engagement with cities, communities, and spaces. [via FM review]

From books to infrastructure - Design - Domus

From books to infrastructure - Design - Domus: From books to infrastructure—
Most people think of Amazon as little more than an online bookstore, but it could be one of the defining forces of 21st–century life—an algorithmically managed infrastructure company that has single–handedly rewritten the publishing industry's rulebook. A design report from Seattle by James Bridle

The Filter Bubble

Book review of Eli Pariser’s The filter bubble: What the Internet is hiding from you
by Anne Shelley.
First Monday, Volume 17, Number 6 - 4 June 2012

She Is Leaving :: Cube Grenades from gapingvoid art

She Is Leaving :: Cube Grenades from gapingvoid art: "It was pre-destined that the stronger, smarter sex would come to dominate every aspect of life, leaving mainstream is just another iteration...."

New Statesman - Man of great compute

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New Statesman - Man of great compute

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In praise of lost time - Design - Domus

In praise of lost time - Design - Domus