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A Shadow History of the Internet

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What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As ... Read more

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What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As
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Life After Google

The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHFROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "****Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade."“Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George... ... Read more

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHFROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "****Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade."“Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George...
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The Filter Bubble

How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

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An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume.In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, Google's ... Read more

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Artificial Unintelligence

How Computers Misunderstand the World

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A software developer’s misadventures in computer programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligence reveal why we should never assume technology always gets it right.In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to ... Read more

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WTF?

What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

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Can we master the technologies we create before they master us? A "punchy and provocative" assessment by one of Silicon Valley's sharpest observers ( Financial Times).WTF? can be an expression of amazement or of dismay—and today's technology elicits both reactions. In this book, Tim O'Reilly, dubbed "the Oracle of Silicon Valley" by Inc. magazine, explores the upsides—and potential downsides—of ... Read more

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What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

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We've gone from regarding the Net as something exotic to something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. Yet most people have no idea how the network functions, nor any conception of its architecture; and few can explain why it has been - and continues to be - so uniquely disruptive in social, economic and cultural contexts. John Naughton has been thinking, arguing, ... Read more

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Obfuscation

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How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, ... Read more

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Too Big to Know

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