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

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Thanks Max!

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014, max gindt <gindtmax at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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