Andy Piper wants to read Proving Ground by Kathy Kleiman
Proving Ground by Kathy Kleiman
For fans of Code Girls and Hidden Figures, PROVING GROUND is the untold, World War II-era story of the six …
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For fans of Code Girls and Hidden Figures, PROVING GROUND is the untold, World War II-era story of the six …
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
A fun, quick, snackable read (each chapter is only a few pages, and focuses on a single “idea that changed the web”). For a book that is nearly 10 years old, it holds up fairly well - although with the pace of change, there are obviously a number of ideas and historical references which seem very dated now (companies and technologies that have gone away, etc). I learned a few things along the way, so it was a worthwhile read.
Nearly halfway through. Nice short snackable chapters in here. It’s nearly 10 years old and it shows (unsurprising with any book about the Internet), but I’ve learned a lot of fun things about the rise and fall of some of my favourite older services (e.g. Geocities), as well as about some of the more enduring ones. Also, made notes on some cool stuff around online computer art, useful for an upcoming talk I’m giving.
This is exactly what happened. I enjoyed seeing Manu’s cartoons when we worked at Twitter at the same time, and I’m glad he carried on documenting the end of the company after the layoffs.
This collection of provocations from the think tank Cybersalon brings together a blend of near-future speculative fiction and non-fiction commentary …
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and …
As recommended by Ryan on #Techgrumps...