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

Tue Sep 2 14:05:57 PDT 2014

I would add Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014, Nadia Kutscher <nadia.kutscher at uni-vechta.de>
wrote:

>   Cory Doctorow: Little Brother and Homeland
>  Thore B. Hansen: Silent Control
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Nadia
>
> > max gindt <gindtmax at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gindtmax at gmail.com');>> hat am 2. September
> 2014 um 21:46 geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > 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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