An aggregated reading list of the best, in-depth thinking from around the web on the impact of technology and social media, curated by Nathan Jurgenson and Cyborgology.
“There’s a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley”
“Drones date online, but drones don’t think about it the way that humans do”
“The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet”
“We have a billion folks using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day”
“Throughout Zuckerberg’s talk, people and Facebook friends were used interchangeably“
“There’s a stereotypical Pinterest user and I can’t escape the feeling that it is what I have become”
“the collective value of all bitcoins has passed a billion dollars”
“Irene Serra chose the name -isq for her band deliberately to make it hard to find online”
“the public quickly accepts all the miracles that science provides (1948)”
“it is often difficult to distinguish between organized trolling and media linkbait“
“[Stanford] now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team”
“the latest billboard for advertising is your own cellphone’s home screen”
“almost nobody genuinely desired a Facebook Phone”
“They don’t call it that in Rome”