Digital photography is not only ruining special moments, it kills off our own memories of events and ourselves. Interesting essay, taking culture pessimism one step further.

What surveillance has to do with Starbucks and why everyone should learn to code. Before you dismiss the idea: What if you could read, but not write, listen, but not speak. That’s pretty close to how most of us are using computers and the internet. It’s a bit of a rant that I’m recommending here, but at its core it has a very valid wake-up call: «We’re not going to get through this by pushing buttons on centralized services. If you want to use the Internet in 2013, you need to pick up some tech skills.» (The article has been deleted from Medium where it was published, but it can still be found if you follow the link and search for “Subject: [ExI] Distributed Everything”)

«Speed doesn’t pay like it used to» – why algorithms are no longer the stars of Wall Street.

Should robots be able to decide who and when to kill on their own? The question is less far-fetched than it might seem.

An interesting analysis of how people connect within Facebook and the question answered why your friends have more friends than you.

«All sorts of crazy stuff is going to happen. Human societies can’t change that fast without both good and negative implications.» – Google’s Eric Schmidt talks to The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger.

If you could – with no loss of energy – quit sleeping altogether, would you?