I would add Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. On Tuesday, September 2, 2014, Nadia Kutscher <nadia.kutscher@uni-vechta.de> wrote:
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother and Homeland Thore B. Hansen: Silent Control
Best regards
Nadia
max gindt <gindtmax@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gindtmax@gmail.com');>> hat am 2. September 2014 um 21:46 geschrieben:
Good evening, since some of you asked for my reading list, here it is.
- Jaron Lanier, Who owns the future? - Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding edge - Evgeny Morozov, To save everything, click here - Dave Eggers, The Circle - Luke Dormehl, The Formula - Big Data - Das neue Versprechen der Allwissenheit (collected essays) - Mercedes Bunz, Die stille Revolution - Daniel Miller, Das wilde Netzwerk: Ein ethnologischer Blick auf Facebook - Alain Desrosières, Prouver et gouverner - Shintaro Miyazaki, Algorythimisiert - Eine Medienarchäologie digitaler Signale und unerhörter Zeiteffekte
As you can see, there are some books which are very accessible and written in a journalistic manner, especially Dormehl. Eggers' book which is only now getting popular in western europe is, I think, the near perfect depiction of the very-near future, although with little literary merit. Pynchons' has almost no place on the list but is still inspired by 2000-style internet... Desrosières writes about the use of statistics in government so not directly internet-related but still an interesting subject for those interested in probabilistic governing, which as a subject of course extends to data-based profiling and grouping. Finally, Miyazaki, with a historical approach details various technological developments and social uses all tending toward the all-day use of algorithms in our machines.
So, again, what are your suggestions (and thanks for those already given)?
Max
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Stine Gotved <gotved@itu.dk <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gotved@itu.dk');>> wrote:
Yes, I agree on Morgan - also his "Black Man" is fantastic. Please, share the reading list! :) Stine
On 01/09/14 22.43, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','alemtor@gmail.com');>> wrote:
I think "Altered carbon", by Richard K. Morgan. Best,
Alejandro Tortolini Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014-09-01 17:37 GMT-03:00 max gindt <gindtmax@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gindtmax@gmail.com');>>:
Dear Air-L-isti,
some time ago I reviewed a few fiction- and non-fiction-books portraying technological change, data protection questions, big data-based marketing etc. Morozov, the latest Pynchon, Jaron Lanier, Mercedes Bunz, Dave Eggers' The Circle among other books, the aim being popular books illustrating the many near-future tech-related questions of our time.
My question to the distinguished readers of this list being this: With which book would you personally continue the series? No matter what format or perspective (or degree of complexity).
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