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Disruptive technologies

Gabriel J. Michael (GWU): Anarchy and Property Rights in the Virtual World: How Disruptive Technologies Undermine the State and Ensure that the Virtual World Remains a “Wild West”. From The Baffler, the meme hustler: Evgeny Morozov on Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk (and more and more and more and more and more on Evgeny Morozov's To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism). With Google Glass, predictive analytics get intimately personal, shaping behavior by overwriting the reality wearers perceive. Keith Kleiner interviews Ray Kurzweil on his first two months at Google. Were the Luddites right? Ronald Bailey on smart machines and the prospect of technological unemployment. David Pescovitz interviews Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock. Robert C. Scharff reviews Ethics in Technology: A Philosophical Study by Topi Heikkero.