Humane Technology reading lists

Yes Homo Deus is a wonderfully interesting book.

Delightful post on what constitutes humane technology and the importance of scale…

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Technical (on-)topics related to humane tech…

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Adam Curtis - The Century of Self
Connecting the dots of the last 100 years of capitalism feeding off the masses development of self - very applicable in today’s social media attention economy.

Jonas Staal - Art. Democratism. Propaganda.
Destroying the fallacy that our society is somehow beyond propaganda.

Stephen Duncombe - Dream
Examining the relationship between reality and fantasy as it relates to politics and power.

Jean Baudrilliard - Simulacra & Simulation
A shockingly prescient analysis of the relationship between our economic infrastructure and moral superstructure.

Frank Chimero - What Screens Want
Decoding the ways screens influence the ways we create and consume content.

How to find out and download the personal data that Google and Facebook (the amounts will astound you)

And 18 tips to survive the surveillance age:

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About real ads vs fake ads and trackers plus how to block them…

An interesting study on trolling and how to improve an online community:

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Now this is a decent way to increase your Time Well Spent, I think:

edit: lotsa quiting experiences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763604

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Interesting read… this startup of neuroscientists wants to fight fire with fire to fight smartphone addiction:

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Echo chambers are very real… interesting study

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I am fascinated by World Without Mind by Franklin Foer. subject: Sociology. Orion, 2017 Link to Powells Online

While I should maybe post this in another topic, this is interesting for future work of tje CHT:

Now this one is just Hilarious :smile:

Might show it to your kids next time they are on Instagram…

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Great list forming here. I’d add:

  • Bernard Harcourt’s ‘Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age’ - covers surveillance and expository society

  • Michael Bess ‘Make way for the superhumans’

  • Mark O’Connell ‘To be a machine’

  • P. Lewis 2017 - Guardian Article - ‘our minds can be hijacked’

  • Adrian Ward, PhD dissertation 2013 - ‘One with the Cloud: Why People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge for Their Own’, Harvard

  • Andrew Keen, The Internet is not the answer

  • Lee et al 2014 - Paper - The Dark Side of Smartphone Usage: Psychological Traits, compulsive behaviour and technostress

  • Sparrow et al 2011 - Paper - Google Effects on Memory

  • Andy Clark 2010 - Supersizing the mind: embodiment, action and cognitive extension

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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: Facebook messenger, access to photos, and privacy

@aschrijver have you seen this organization- i did a search and didnt see it…

https://www.democraticmedia.org/

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"As a scholar of the social and political implications of technology, I would argue the internet is designed to be hostile to the people who use it. I call it a “hostile information architecture.”

An entertaining read about the insane culture that has arisen in Silicon Valley by the many would-be billionaire startup founders that flock together here. But also describes trends we see more broadly in the whole of society…

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A very good article by the Pew Research Center on the rise of the algorithm:

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