Kara W. Swanson (Northeastern): “Great Men”, Law, and the Social Construction of Technology. Tom Rutledge reviews A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman. Mark David Webster (Reynolds): Questioning Technological Determinism through Empirical Research. Google X and the science of radical creativity: How the secretive Silicon Valley lab is trying to resurrect the lost art of invention. Know thy futurist: Many visions of the future proliferate in Silicon Valley — which one is worth fighting for? Sarah Jones on Silicon Valley’s religious drive. Silicon Valley’s poverty of philosophy: Silicon Valley must contend with something deeper if it truly wants to meet its goal of “changing the world”. Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms by R. Alexander Bentley and Michael J. O’Brien.
