The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

By Nicolas CaGoogle talk gives a great description of the realir

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So, I first read the shallows and bored my friends with all my talk about how computers are making us dumber. Then I read Clive Thompson and bored them about how computers are actually making us smarter. Now along comes Nicky with another book and again I have to re-evaluate my position.

I found it amazing that airline pilots who suddenly find themselves having to actually fly the plane when the autopilot malfunctions not really being able to for lack of actual flight experience. And the fact that although your GPS telss you to turn rivht and you see your road on the left you will still turn right totally ignoring the visual clues around you.

In every industry computers, for better or worse, are taking over. In my job they tell you treat the patient not the monitor. And after reading this book I now totally get what tbey mean. We have to be ablre to have a certain degree of skepticism when the visual clues don't  mach what the monitor is saying. If nothing else just getting this point was worth the read.

The authors' Google talk gives a great description of the problems with implementation of EMR.

Pg. 189 Drones are good but the military is working in new technology called LAR that will pull the trigger itself based on its own programming and algorithms. 

Topics:

Yerkes-Dodson performance curve.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

The flash crash

The dot com crash

EMR

Essay

GPS and the End  of  the Road Ari N. Sxhulman

Thenewatlantis.com

Bill Joy Why The Future Doesnt Need Us

Man Computer Symbiosis JCR Licklider

Video:

Watch the authors Google.talk and see what he really thinks about EMR. 

Nicholas Carr, "The Glass Cage: Automation and Us": http://youtu.be/Mt8ooCms4sE

60 minutes "The March of the Machines"

Books:

Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution

Richard Whittle

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Michael Hitzik

Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

Networks of Power

Thomas Hughes

To Save Everything Click Here

Evgeny Morozov

The End of Work

Jeremy Rifkin

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Thompson, Clive (2013)

By Clive Thompson

Ebook

So just when Nicky Carr had me convinced that the internet was making us dumber, along comes this book that takes up the opposing view. I think Mr Thompson actually has the right idea. I mean so what i look up things on google instead of agonizingly pulling them from the sub - conscious. Intelligence is knowing where to find the info we need. And now it's   easier than ever to do.

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

By Gareth Murphy.

Another interest of mine is the recording industry. I have read many books on the subject and this was a good addition to the knowledge base. It was like a peak into the whole business. All the time periods and trials and triumphs from each period were delineated wonderfully. Great bibliography. Got lots of leads.

What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data—Lifeblood of Big Business—and the End of Privacy as We Know It

By Adam Tanner

Loved this book. Great look into what really happens when you put that magic card into the slot machine  at the casino and how wether you are online or IRL, someone is always watching you.

I particularly like the program connect.me. This program gives you a visual representation of all the different entities that follow you as you surf the web. Try it youll be amazed.