The Payback is a Bitch Edition
First, a must-read: Tech’s Enduring Great-Man Myth.
As promised, no editorial this week due to the holidays, but rust and tech – and hubris, it seems – never rests, and given the increasing amount of connectedness/surveillance/ control of which tech is capable, and with governments at the table and in the code, fyi:
Google My Activity shows everything that company knows about its users and there’s a lot
Facebook’s Filter Bubble Is Getting Worse. Facebook is becoming an echo chamber that prevents us from being confronted with opinions we don’t agree with
The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb. Maybe you’re not as smart as you think – and ‘they’ are not as dumb as some might have you believe…
As Robert Frost said, nothing gold can stay. Just a few points to ponder, as we move onward and forward.