Further Reading

A couple of you have asked me what to read or look into next.  So I'll give a few good sources for anyone who's still reading this.

Electric Media:

NPR's show On the Media is always good.  Bob Garfield is great.

Most of you know that I think Frontline is the best show on TV.

Bob McChesney's radio show is often pretty good.

Books:

Thomas de Zengotita's book, Mediated, is the best book on media issues I've read in a long time.  And it's available in our library.

Douglas Rushkoff is also excellent.

Evidence of the Singularity

I can't even explain this.

Read These

Here's another great article; I'd like to call it a MUST-READ, but that label won't be enforced.

It reads, in part:

UNTIL A FEW YEARS ago [...] our only method of tracking ourselves was to notice what we were doing and write it down. But even this written record couldn’t be analyzed objectively without laborious processing and analysis.  [...] Then four things changed. First, electronic sensors got smaller and better. Second, people started carrying powerful computing devices, typically disguised as mobile phones. Third, social media made it seem normal to share everything. And fourth, we began to get an inkling of the rise of a global superintelligence known as the cloud.

And here's another article, from a very different perspective. And here's another holy crap article.  And remember what I said about Harry Potter?  And this article reminds me of the Bob Dylan line: "if my thoughts/ dreams could be seen--they'd probably put my head in a guillotine."