This is the second installment of Data Based, a weekly Cyborgology feature producing original, insightful, and fun data visualizations.
society
“If autonomous vehicles obey traffic laws, income from traffic violations should go down”
“Tumblr encourages unbounded use. It allows you to experiment and play”
“Drones as killer robots, drones as children sent off to war”
“if engineers could come up with an iPotty that fits in your purse, links up to Twitter and takes photos, toilet access might catch up with phones” (thanks jenny!)
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
Data Based is a brand new Cyborgology feature producing original, insightful, and fun data visualizations.
“It’s a fair guess that the attorneys in the Cannibal Cop case have never heard of digital dualism”
“our discomfort with Google Glass is drawn by body horror, not fear of surveillance institutions”
“the cultural and technological impact of Grindr is much broader than most people realize”
“A future of frictionless, continuous shopping fits with Google’s vision for the world”
“we really don’t have a choice between mediated and unmediated experience”
“with Silicon Valley at the helm, our life will become one long California highway”
“Is a tweet labor? Is a Facebook post labor?”
“Drone makers have been courting the paparazzi”
“there is no good pre-internet metaphor for what it’s trying to do”
“Drones permit and accelerate new topographies of warfare”
“we might someday wonder why our childhood memories are held under DRM”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
“Catfish is Jerry Springer for the social media age”
“Let’s face it: panic about ‘people’ not pairing off is really panic about women not pairing off”
“the idea that technology comes from us, people, is something we are reluctant to accept”
“Stop Calling It ‘Digital Humanities’”
“temporary photography is doing something very interesting with time”
“the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace”
“Everybody in the industry wants to see Spotify succeed”
“Who hates free speech? The powerful and the powerless“ more...
“Facebook has certainly taken notice of the desire for impermanence”
“It’s interesting that we now create things specifically to forget”
“networks can be far more tyrannical, opaque, and anti-democratic than hierarchies”
“use online connectivity not to try to define ourselves perfectly but to undo ourselves over and over”
“social media seem to intersect interpersonal sociality and corporate monetization”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
“the Internet is laughing. And Applebee’s is losing a lot of customers”
“People need to worry less about the future of print and worry more about the future of sentences”
“people click Like merely because humans have an irresistible desire to be counted”
“when DRM makes products less valuable, it also makes them less real”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
“Vine’s six seconds feels like an eternity”
“These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online”
“Facebook is not *doing* anything to society”
“Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?”
“Plato was right. The efficient and durable externalization of memory makes us personally indifferent to remembrance“ more...
“If autonomous vehicles obey traffic laws, income from traffic violations should go down”
“Tumblr encourages unbounded use. It allows you to experiment and play”
“Drones as killer robots, drones as children sent off to war”
“if engineers could come up with an iPotty that fits in your purse, links up to Twitter and takes photos, toilet access might catch up with phones” (thanks jenny!)
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
Data Based is a brand new Cyborgology feature producing original, insightful, and fun data visualizations.
“It’s a fair guess that the attorneys in the Cannibal Cop case have never heard of digital dualism”
“our discomfort with Google Glass is drawn by body horror, not fear of surveillance institutions”
“the cultural and technological impact of Grindr is much broader than most people realize”
“A future of frictionless, continuous shopping fits with Google’s vision for the world”
“we really don’t have a choice between mediated and unmediated experience”
“with Silicon Valley at the helm, our life will become one long California highway”
“Is a tweet labor? Is a Facebook post labor?”
“Drone makers have been courting the paparazzi”
“there is no good pre-internet metaphor for what it’s trying to do”
“Drones permit and accelerate new topographies of warfare”
“we might someday wonder why our childhood memories are held under DRM”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
“Catfish is Jerry Springer for the social media age”
“Let’s face it: panic about ‘people’ not pairing off is really panic about women not pairing off”
“the idea that technology comes from us, people, is something we are reluctant to accept”
“Stop Calling It ‘Digital Humanities’”
“temporary photography is doing something very interesting with time”
“the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace”
“Everybody in the industry wants to see Spotify succeed”
“Who hates free speech? The powerful and the powerless“ more...
“Facebook has certainly taken notice of the desire for impermanence”
“It’s interesting that we now create things specifically to forget”
“networks can be far more tyrannical, opaque, and anti-democratic than hierarchies”
“use online connectivity not to try to define ourselves perfectly but to undo ourselves over and over”
“social media seem to intersect interpersonal sociality and corporate monetization”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
“the Internet is laughing. And Applebee’s is losing a lot of customers”
“People need to worry less about the future of print and worry more about the future of sentences”
“people click Like merely because humans have an irresistible desire to be counted”
“when DRM makes products less valuable, it also makes them less real”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. more...
“Vine’s six seconds feels like an eternity”
“These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online”
“Facebook is not *doing* anything to society”
“Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?”
“Plato was right. The efficient and durable externalization of memory makes us personally indifferent to remembrance“ more...