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The Internet may lie in the past

From ProPublica, Lois Beckett on everything we know about what data brokers know about you. Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam? Tom Slee reviews To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov (and more and more). Evgeny Morozov on the wrong way to discuss new technologies — as illustrated by anti-noise campaigns from the early 20th century. Net benefits: How to quantify the gains that the internet has brought to consumers. Arctic Steampunk: Scott Smith on the new age of cold weather data infrastructure. Zachary Spicer reviews Digital Cities: The Internet and the Geography of Opportunity by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert and William W. Franko. Laurence Scott reviews Who Owns The Future? by Jaron Lanier. Katherine Maher on the New Westphalian Web: The future of the Internet may lie in the past — and that's not a good thing.