Technology and Digital Culture

Table of Contents

TODO

  1. On China, US National Security Experts Fear the Wrong Thing
  2. What Happens When We Let Tech Care for Our Aging Parents
  3. The Revelations of Lady Murderface
  4. Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/
  5. Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized https://www.wired.com/story/cloning-came-to-polo-things-got-uncivilized-cambiaso/
  6. Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout https://www.theverge.com/analysis/715450/2025-tv-shootout-value-electronics
  7. Vastly Cheaper Computation: https://humanprogress.org/trends/vastly-cheaper-computation/
  8. Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds https://www.wired.com/story/securam-prologic-safe-lock-backdoor-exploits/
  9. Advances Vs. Consequences: What Does The 21st Century Have In Store For Humanity? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/advances-vs-consequences-what-does-the-21st-century-have-in-store-for-humanity/
  10. The End of Infinite Data Storage Can Set You Free - https://www.wired.com/story/cloud-computing-space-data-storage-habits/
  11. Tech Companies Are Not Ready for a Post-Roe Era - https://www.wired.com/story/tech-companies-not-ready-post-roe-era/
  12. Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail? - https://www.wired.com/story/yandex-arkady-volozh-russia-largest-tech-company/
  13. Inside Big Tech’s Race to Patent Everything - https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-patent-intellectual-property/
  14. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/new-romanticism-technology-backlash
  15. TikTok search results riddled with misinformation: Report - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-politics-covid-health-5cdbe1ec32312699acbe8ba9b6a00eb5
  16. https://www.wired.com/story/connor-moucka-snowflake-hack-arrest-extradition/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
  17. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-life-of-an-ev-battery-from-cradle-to-grave-and-why-recycling-is-still-so-hard?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
  18. How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom - https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-cloud-attack-china-hackers/
  19. EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk - https://www.wired.com/story/electric-vehicle-charging-station-hacks/
  20. My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes: https://www.wired.com/story/my-fathers-death-in-7-gigabytes-internet-archive/
  21. https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/
  22. https://www.wired.com/story/the-one-internet-hack-that-could-save-everything-section-230/
  23. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/matthew-bergwall-miami-amazon-package-scam-package-refund.html
  24. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html
  25. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024
  26. Podcasts Could Unleash a New Age of Enlightenment: https://www.wired.com/story/podcasts-speech-thought-history-enlightenment/
  27. The Future of Digital Assistants Is Queer: https://www.wired.com/story/digital-assistant-smart-device-gender-identity/
  28. Spreadsheets Are Hot—and Cranking Out Complex Code: https://www.wired.com/story/spreadsheets-are-hot-and-cranking-out-complex-code/
  29. Mark Zuckerberg is betting Facebook’s future on the metaverse: https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-metaverse-interview
  30. The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger: https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-metaverse-internet-consolidation-business/
  31. The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it? https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/17/1042692/log4j-internet-open-source-hacking/
  32. How to Save Democracy From Technology: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-24/fukuyama-how-save-democracy-technology
  33. Tech Leaders Can Do More to Avoid Unintended Consequences: https://www.wired.com/story/technology-unintended-consequences/
  34. The Big Cloud Exit FAQ: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010
  35. Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704228/cloud-may-be-overpriced-compared-to-on-premises-systems.html
  36. Bringing the cloud back on-premise: improving security and reducing costs: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/bringing-the-cloud-back-on-premise-improving-security-and-reducing-costs/
  37. 2023 could be the year of public cloud repatriation: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3684369/2023-could-be-the-year-of-public-cloud-repatriation.html
  38. How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity: https://www.wired.com/story/27-year-old-codebreaker-busted-myth-bitcoins-anonymity/
  39. TikTok Must Not Fail Ukrainians: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-must-not-fail-ukrainians/
  40. How Do Hackers Sell and Trade Your Data in the Metaverse? https://www.makeuseof.com/how-hackers-sell-trade-data-in-metaverse/
  41. Tech Bans Hurt Russian Dissidents More than They Help Ukraine: https://www.wired.com/story/tech-bans-hurt-russian-dissidents-more-than-they-help-ukraine/
  42. https://stratechery.com/2024/windows-returns/
  43. https://stratechery.com/2024/the-great-flattening/
  44. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/how-i-upgraded-my-water-heater-and-discovered-how-bad-smart-home-security-can-be/

Does technology help catch criminals?

  1. A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect
  2. How police used google searches to catch murderers

Good uses of technology

  1. The New Frontier of Prosthetics? Tech for Independent Living - https://www.wired.com/story/prosthetics-disability-future-of-work/
  2. Computers May Have Cracked the Code to Diagnosing Sepsis

Problems with technology and Digital culture

  1. The End of Handwriting https://www.wired.com/story/the-end-of-handwriting/
  2. How Social Media Is Fueling Gen Z’s Sex Recession https://www.wired.com/story/carter-sherman-the-second-coming-interview/
  3. What Happens to Your Data If You Stop Paying for Cloud Storage? https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-to-your-data-if-you-stop-paying-for-cloud-storage/
  4. Are we really addicted to technology? https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/are-we-really-addicted-technology/
  5. 10 emerging technologies that will change our world https://bigthink.com/the-future/10-emerging-technologies-change-world/
  6. The Most Powerful Medium (video) Has No Rulebook https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-most-powerful-medium-has-no-rulebook/
  7. The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search https://www.wired.com/story/the-privacy-friendly-tech-to-replace-your-us-based-email-browser-and-search/
  8. 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-is-dead-its-toxic-legacy-is-everywhere/
  9. “Awareness” overload: How TikTok’s mental health content goes off the rails: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/mental-health-awareness-backfiring/
  10. US Spies Are Buying Americans’ Private Data. Congress Has a New Chance to Stop It - https://www.wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-davidson-jacobs-fourth-amendment/
  11. The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

TODO

  1. The True Story of the Antifa Invasion of Forks, Washington

Immortality

  1. Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/
  2. The price of Silicon Valley’s obsession with immortality https://bigthink.com/health/immortality-race-to-live-forever/
  3. Aubrey de Grey on the Imminence of Immortality https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/aubrey-de-grey-on-the-imminence-of-immortality/
  4. Androids that offer “digital immortality” begin mass production in Russia https://bigthink.com/the-future/startup-begins-mass-producing-robot-clones-people/

Trans humanists

  1. The dream of transhumanism: Are we merely human — or are we something more? https://bigthink.com/13-8/transhumanism-dream/
  2. Transhumanism: Savior of humanity or false prophecy? https://bigthink.com/the-future/transhumanism-savior-humanity-false-prophecy/
  3. Transhumanists want to upload their minds to a computer. They really won’t like the result https://bigthink.com/the-future/transhumanism-upload-mind-computer/

Metaverse

  1. Metaverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
  2. Is a lack of creativity already ruining the metaverse? https://bigthink.com/the-future/metaverse-inequality/
  3. Evil twins and digital elves: How the metaverse will create new forms of fraud and deception https://bigthink.com/the-future/metaverse-fraud-digital-twins/
  4. Fixing the metaverse: Augmented reality pioneer shares ideas for avoiding dystopia https://bigthink.com/the-future/metaverse-dystopia/
  5. “Playing God”: How the metaverse will challenge our very notion of free will https://bigthink.com/the-future/playing-god-metaverse-mind-control-free-will/
  6. The case for demanding “immersive rights” in the metaverse https://bigthink.com/the-future/immersive-rights-metaverse/
  7. Metaverse: Augmented reality pioneer warns it could be far worse than social media https://bigthink.com/the-future/metaverse-augmented-reality-danger/
  8. Why virtual reality is necessary on a planet of 11 billion https://bigthink.com/the-future/virtual-reality-future/
  9. Immersive technology will revolutionize everything from theme parks to daily life https://bigthink.com/the-future/immersive-technology/

Tags

  1. Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media

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