Cloud control

 Annalee Newitz for Gizmodo on the future of google.

I'm slowly reading Terms of Service, by Jacob Silverman.  Slow because I'm reading on the light rail 30-40 minutes a day, and because there's a lot of information packed into each page.

I've been waiting to read more science fiction that tackles the kind of issues raised in these books/articles.  Mostly there's a lot of vague handwaving towards a totalitarian scenario, or it's a metaphor for oppression.  Detailed tech-savvy analysis of where the social media, data as the monetizing factor, no privacy scenario is headed, not so much.

Guess I'm gonna have to write something this summer...

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