[Air-L] Relevant fiction on all things data protection / technological progress / big-data marketing

[max gindt]

Good evening,
since some of you asked for my reading list, here it is.

- Jaron Lanier, Who owns the future?
- Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding edge
- Evgeny Morozov, To save everything, click here
- Dave Eggers, The Circle
- Luke Dormehl, The Formula
- Big Data - Das neue Versprechen der Allwissenheit (collected essays)
- Mercedes Bunz, Die stille Revolution
- Daniel Miller, Das wilde Netzwerk: Ein ethnologischer Blick auf Facebook
- Alain Desrosières, Prouver et gouverner
- Shintaro Miyazaki, Algorythimisiert - Eine Medienarchäologie digitaler
Signale und unerhörter Zeiteffekte

As you can see, there are some books which are very accessible and written
in a journalistic manner, especially Dormehl.  Eggers' book which is only
now getting popular in western europe is, I think, the near perfect
depiction of the very-near future, although with little literary merit.
Pynchons' has almost no place on the list but is still inspired by
2000-style internet... Desrosières writes about the use of statistics in
government so not directly internet-related but still an interesting
subject for those interested in probabilistic governing, which as a subject
of course extends to data-based profiling and grouping. Finally, Miyazaki,
with a historical approach details various technological developments and
social uses all tending toward the all-day use of algorithms in our
machines.

So, again, what are your suggestions (and thanks for those already given)?

Max


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Stine Gotved <gotved at itu.dk> wrote:

> Yes, I agree on Morgan - also his "Black Man" is fantastic.
> Please, share the reading list!
> :)
> Stine
>
> On 01/09/14 22.43, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I think "Altered carbon", by Richard K. Morgan.
> >Best,
> >
> >Alejandro Tortolini
> >Buenos Aires, Argentina
> >
> >
> >2014-09-01 17:37 GMT-03:00 max gindt <gindtmax at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Dear Air-L-isti,
> >>
> >> some time ago I reviewed a few fiction- and non-fiction-books portraying
> >> technological change, data protection questions, big data-based
> >>marketing
> >> etc. Morozov, the latest Pynchon, Jaron Lanier, Mercedes Bunz, Dave
> >>Eggers'
> >> The Circle among other books, the aim being popular books illustrating
> >>the
> >> many near-future tech-related questions of our time.
> >>
> >> My question to the distinguished readers of this list being this: With
> >> which book would you personally continue the series? No matter what
> >>format
> >> or perspective (or degree of complexity).
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for any pointers and advice,
> >> Max Gindt
> >> Brussels
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