AIW 04 {Events}

AIW04, Tuesday 1st of February 2011 at 5:30pm

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Attended activities

• Online bibliography
• Books to discover
  • Internet
  • Society
  • Cognition
  • Epistemology
• Books already read
• Books currently reading

Books to discover

I am willing to read any of those book during the following days and do daily discussion. They are sorted by topic and by preferences (from the highest to the lowest).

Internet

1. The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov, PublicAffairs 2011
   • review Morozov’s Net Delusion: skeptical take on net-freedom marred by straw-men byCory Doctorow, craphound.com January 2011
   • via http://profoundheterogeneity.com/2011/01/deluded-that-the-internet-transforms-power-structures/ (from WithoutNotesJanuary11)
   • Evgeny Morozov on Philosophy of Technology, FiveBooks interview by Tom Dannet, The Browser January 2011
2. City of Bits by William J. Mitchell, MIT Press 1996
   • mentionned during CollegeDeFranceColloqueDeRentree2010 by Michel Lussault
   • see also The Death of the Open Web by Virginia Heffernan, NYTimes.com May 2010 which goes the other way around and compare the Web as a city, especially qualifying Apple as one Gated Community of the Webtropolis
3. Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias edited by Peter Ludlow, The MIT Press 2001
4. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, Cambridge University Press 2010
   • Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW by S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes, OUP 2003
   • Universal fractal scaling of self-organized networks Nature Precedings September 2010
   • Networks: An introduction by Mark Newman, OUP 2010
   • see also the work on power law and scale free auto-organization by Geoffrey West at Santa Fe Institute
5. Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald 2009
6. Activism!: Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society by Tim Jordan, Reaktion Books, 2002
   • or his more recent 2008 Hacking: digital media and technological determinism
   • both discovered after reading Hacking and power: Social and technological determinism in the digital age

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Society

1. The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, 1962
2. Wikinomics : How Mass Collaboration Changes everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, 2006
   1. Wikinomics Inspired by the best selling book Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams.

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Cognition

1. iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind by Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan, Harper&Collins 2008
   1. Your Brain At Work by David Rock seems much better based on his Google Tech Talk

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Epistemology

1. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter, Basic Books 1995
   • Google Books preview
   • Wikipedia:Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
   • AAAI review
   • C2 wiki description
2. Closure: a story of everything by Hilary Lawson, Routledge, 2001
   • Wikipedia:Closure (philosophy)
   • Wikipedia:Closure: A Short History of Everything
   • Hilary Lawson discusses the concept of closure, The Failure of Reason, The Institute of Art and Ideas, January 2010
3. Science from Fisher Information by B. Roy Frieden, Cambridge University Press 2004
   • Fisher Information in the authors's Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona page
   • Roy Frieden's Recent Papers
   • B. Roy Frieden, Physics from Fisher Information by Cosma Shalizi, The Bactra Review: Occasional and eclectic book reviews

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Note that more books I am considering reading are available in my ScanningNotes. Back to the Menu

Books already read

• InformationRules regarding the economy of information, how it can be differentiated, the role of standards, etc
• Supersizing the mind, by Andy Clark on extended cognition, how writing (and programming) does change but rather is cognition
• TheFutureOfIdeas and the layers of control and how creative commons can be an effort to counter such policies
• MecaMind, the history of tools related to computation
• InformationFeudalism or how the what seems initially like creative liberty is "taken back" by the major economical actor (IPSO & such)
• TheDarkSideOfGoogle and how one of the largest information company used 2-sided market to sell personal information yes appear "friendly"
• CriticalPlay regarding the importance of games (and potentially the risk of gamification)
• TurtlesTermitesAndTrafficJams on programming and thus thinking in a distributed fashion
• HighSpeedSociety on the evolution and pace of technology, their impact on society at large
• InternetRevolutionCulturelle, critical review on the "liberating medium"
• TheSocietyOfMind, classic by Marvin Minsky on his psychological view on how to build engineer a mind
• TheRedQueen, how runaway processes shaped our cognition
• TheMatingMind or why seducing imposed additional pressure and forced animals to be smarter at selecting mates
• TreeOfKnowledge
• Accelerando
• DiamondAge
• TheSelfishGene (no notes yet)
• ThePinballEffect (no notes yet), James Burke depicting creativity and innovation as lines across centuries and

Note that more notes on books I have finished reading are available in my PersonalInformationStream#Finished. Back to the Menu

Books currently reading

• OpenGovernment O'Reilly 2010
  • discussing the impact of social network, OpenData, APIs and how citizen can leverage those new means and ask for more
• TheDarkSideOfCreativity
  • discussing the idea that creativity is all too often pre-supposed as positive for society at large and for the individual in particular

Note that more book s I am currently reading are available at PersonalInformationStream#Current Back to the Menu

Overall remarks and conclusions

• I would really appreciate the list of others, either before selection or just the final decision.

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