a book review
Albert-László Barabási explained the processes underpinning such a neofeudalism in his analysis of the structure of complex networks, that is, networks characterized by free choice, growth, and preferential attachment. These are networks where people voluntarily make links or choices. The number of links per site grow over time, and people like things because others like them (the Netflix recommendation system, for instance, relies on this assumption).
by Andrew Hussey The Observer, Sunday 13 April 2014 Century. 'I am not political.' Photograph: Ed Alcock for the Observer French economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Aftonbladet 17.5.2000: "Shirley MacLaine och Olof Palme under ett möte i Stockholm 1977 då de båda deltog i en tv-inspelning" (foto: Lennart Halvarsson)
Zygmunt Bauman kyseenalaistaa vapauden siunaukset ja näkee kaikkialla yksityistymisen kielteisiä seurauksia. Zygmunt Bauman: Notkea moderni (Liquid Modernity). Suom. Jyrki Vainonen. Vastapaino. 264 s. 24,40 e Rec. av Keijo Rahkonen i HS 13.7.2002.
Paul Mason i Guardian, bygger på Grundrisse. Hans bok: Postcapitalism is published by Allen Lane on 30 July.
"Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. First, it has reduced the need for work, blurred the edges between work and free time and loosened the relationship between work and wages. The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all."
"By creating millions of networked people, financially exploited but with the whole of human intelligence one thumb-swipe away, info-capitalism has created a new agent of change in history: the educated and connected human being."
Technology hasn’t diminished the social quality of listening to music.
By Daniel A. Gross March 10, 2016
DANCING BY YOURSELF: Critics who lament that “silent discos” symbolize individualism and the breakdown of community are missing the full picture of music’s social powers.
"Technology hasn’t diminished the social bonds of music. On the contrary, we’ve created and adapted technology to enhance them."
"social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects. (...) Flickr, for example, has turned photos into objects of sociality. On del.icio.us the objects are the URLs. EVDB, Upcoming.org, and evnt focus on events as objec