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Por ahora divertido e irreverente.

The impact factor in academia and research; the absurd psychology of data qualifiers; more fodder for ideological conformism.

Personalization is wack.

"Internet-centrism is beginning to block our ability to think of effective technological solutions to problems that do exist."

Government data and campaign finance information via search results all seem nice and simple when it's just a click away. The end product has no context. It's just a snapshot. Even when the aims are noble, the information being presented so easily is not productive.

Is the internet even an accelerant for change (revolution?) or are we just in love with telling ourselves that itvis?

Ich möchte mir eine physische Kopie dieses Buchs kaufen, einfach um es verbrennen zu können, denn ich stimme Morozov einmal zu, dass die Technik nicht alles kann. Das drücken des Löschbuttons, bringt keine Befriedigung, wie es an Okjekte gezielte, physische Gewalt haben kann.

Better to hear this just a half a chapter a day than in larger portions.

The constant stream of names is frustrating

hey, I was thinking "the content is good but I don't enjoy reading it much", but the last couple of chapters were pretty compelling, I'm thinking this might turn out to be a "read more than once" type of book

Ok, so Im a third of the way into this thing and still mostly regret picking it up. It’s getting a bit better, but the word count remains grossly overinflated relative to the amount of actual content. The theme is still bashing people who are overly optimistic about the possibilities of the Internet improving our social and political lives. But specific issues tackled seem minor and obscure, not really bookworthy.

I feel I’m waisting my time reading the same argument repeated ad nauseum over and over again. The first chapter might as well have been a tweet, and the jist of it isn’t even that enlightening to begin with.

It's a real pain to progress toward finishing this book. I'm at over 300 detailed notes, mostly about fallacies, and (1) the bad faith and abuse through biased writing are relentless, and (2) the Nazis are back in the narrative, this time as simile to Kevin Kelly and his What Technology Wants; the author's arguments are so convincing, I just have to read Kelly's book.

The abusive language, nasty rhetorical tricks, and passive aggressiveness continue. There are a few good (read: seemingly correct) points, but my impression so far is this is an appalling example of ill will.

After a couple good comments drowned in a sea of fallacious and mean statements, there is the pointless reference to Nazis. The author tries to blame by association, which is a pathetic rhetorical trick.

The book alternates between numerous fallacious, erroneous, or plain stupid (e.g., ad hominem attacks) arguments; and some good points and historical references. It's really difficult to read more than a few pages at a time, but perhaps there is something to this book.

So far it's quite interesting but not a fast read at all.

A terrifying book on the implications of our information rich, security poor world.

"Perhaps this is how aesthetics was meant to end, with a bunch of enthusiastic devotees of the Quantified Self Movement comparing notes on whether the nudes of Picasso or Degas generate longer erections. Human experience, run through the quantification mill, is reduced to little more than a stream of silent and mind-numbing bytes... "

Only 5% in, and the author is contradicting himself. Also, the cherry-picked examples don't pass the author's own definition of solutionism. The rest so far is one author's desire to seem shocking. Hmmm... perhaps I should write an algorithm to find out if any logical argument is indeed hidden somewhere in this book.

Research resource.

Mind blowing

i'm highly unimpressed and too tired to explain why

…one hidden hope behind self-tracking is that numbers might eventually reveal some deeper inner truth about who we really are…

The industry, in the meantime, took [Moore's] law to mean whatever it wanted, even embracing a different time estimate of eighteen months

All designers eventually need to endorse at least some week of vision of who will be using their products.

(Paraphrase) consumers are always right and get to be emperors of their experience, citizens aren't and sometimes have to put aside their wants for the good of their fellow citizens.

Something about the experience of living in the polis with other human beings is essentially irreducible to formulaic expression and optimization techniques.

Internet-centrism, as already noted, has the disturbing power to recast old, discarded, and retrograde ideas as unique, original, and progressive sheerly by virtue of their association with 'the Internet'

Kelly writes that 'everything I knew about the structure of information convinced me that knowledge would not spontaneously emerge from data, without a lot of energy and intelligence deliberately directed to transforming it.' What a reasonable thing to have believed! Only there's no reason to stop believing this today.

Here is modernity in a nutshell: We are left with possibly better food but without the joy of cooking.