mimi10v3What software becomes after release: industry, law, labor, culture, institutions, and unintended publics. Histories and reported narratives keep technical change attached to who funds, builds, governs, and absorbs it.
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Free to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
About the bookDale Dougherty, a veteran of the web and maker communities, explores the cultural and practical implications of the maker movement. He argues that the impulse to build, hack, and tinker…
6/10Technology : SocietyIn the Beginning... Was the Command Line
About the bookIn this collection of extended essays, Neal Stephenson applies the narrative drive and technical precision of his fiction to the landscape of digital culture. Writing from the perspecti…
6/10Technology : SocietyInformation Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
About the bookCory Doctorow examines the collision between traditional copyright law and the realities of the digital age, arguing that the current legal framework is ill-suited for an era of instant…
6/10Technology : SocietySuper Crunchers
About the bookEconomist Ian Ayres explores the rise of "super crunchers," organizations that rely on massive databases and statistical algorithms to predict human behavior and make decisions. From ca…
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| Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane | Brett King | 2016 | 4 | Read | → |
| Free to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds | Dale Dougherty | 2016 | 6 | Read | → |
| From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry | Martin Campbell-Kelly | 2003 | 5 | Read | → |
| Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms | Hannah Fry | 2018 | 3.5 | Read | → |
| In the Beginning... Was the Command Line | Neal Stephenson | 1999 | 6 | Read | → |
| Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age | Cory Doctorow | 2014 | 6 | Read | → |
| Super Crunchers | Ian Ayres | 2007 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Red Web | Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan | 2015 | — | Unread | → |
| Wikinomics | Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams | 2006 | 4 | Read | → |