Review (Guest): Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Shirley Turkle 5.0 out of 5 stars No robot could have written this February 16, 2011 Diana Senechal That was one of my thoughts as I read Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together: no matter what robots learn to do, they will never learn to write a book as thoughtful, informative, and intense as Alone Together. They …

Review (Guest): Networked – The New Social Operating System

Lee Raine and Barry Wellman Networked, June 6, 2012 Jenny Davis Broad Summary Rainie and Wellman, using scores of data, argue that we live in a networked operating system characterized by networked individualism. They describe the triple revolution (networked revolution, internet revolution, and mobile revolution) that got us here, and discuss the repercussions of this …

Review (Guest): To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a decent critique of Internet as ideology March 8, 2013 By Peter Socolow Snarky? Check. Contrarian? Check. Demanding? Check. That’s enough checks for me: most books don’t go that far. So, to be blunt: whatever its flaws, this book deserves to be widely read and argued about. …

CRYPTOME: NWO Pimps Eric Schmidt’s Book “The New Digital Age”

Bilderberg Ghosts Praise Eric Schmidt’s Book “Every day, technological innovations are giving people around the world new opportunities to shape their own destinies. In this fascinating book, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen draw upon their unique experiences to show us a future of rising incomes, growing participation, and a genuine sense of community—if we make …

Todd Gitlin: The US Press — Corrupt & Controlled

Todd Gitlin, who teaches journalism and communications at Columbia University, is the author of The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, and many other books including, most recently, Occupy Nation:  The Roots, the Spirit, …

Theophillis Goodyear: The Second Enlightment Emergent Now — Comment by Bojan Radej

The Second Enlightenment Has Emerged: We Should Call It What It Is Have you ever noticed that there’s no convenient, sufficient, or satisfying way to pull all the threads together of all the inter-related branches of wisdom that we’re always talking about? despite the fact that they all seem to be part of the same …