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I’m finishing up Clay Johnson’s The Information Diet, which I am enjoying immensely. I’ve been at a couple events with Clay, but haven’t had the chance to sit down and shoot the shit with him. From what I’ve seen and read, though, he...
Protest Infatuation and the 4th Wave of Democratization
Along with David Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Jad Abumrad, Kurt Anderson belongs to my select fraternity of idealized, intellectual American man-crush. So I was kinda, well, crushed when I read his cover story for this year’s Time Person of the Year. Like the...![[Inequality] A US – Latin America Middle Class Reversal?](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-Shot-2012-03-10-at-8.36.PM_.jpg?resize=489%2C411&ssl=1)
[Inequality] A US – Latin America Middle Class Reversal?
Last Sunday Jorge Castañeda wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review warning Americans what happens when a country doesn’t have a middle class. Yesterday he extended his argument in an hour-long interview with Tom Ashbrook. Castañeda argues...
El Coco is Gonna Get You
My problem is the following: I get to a point where I have 7 or 8 drafts of ambitious yet incomplete blog posts that, if my to-do list is to be believed, will ‘soon’ be published. But my to-do list is not to be believed, not ever. And so these drafts sit...
Too Much Information – Week Ending September 23
What follows is a hyperlinked version of the weekly newsletter of the Information Program of Open Society Foundations. Next week Becky Hogge will take up the newsletter one again. You can continue to follow new editions at her blog. News Global Open Government...
Interview with Zeynep Tufekci: Television, Internet, and the Expansion of Rights
Unlike two years ago, this year I won’t have the time to summarize all of the interesting presentations and discussions from the Ars Electronica Symposium. Isaac and I divided the day into two parts. In the morning, we focused on countries that had already...![[Review] The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood](https://i0.wp.com/davidsasaki.name/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gleick-information.jpg?resize=320%2C466&ssl=1)
[Review] The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
That the earth cirlces around the sun was bad enough, but the real catastrophe confronting the meaning of existence and the existence of meaning was Darwin. Here we are by happenstance, it turns out, the sons and daughters of survivalism and sexuality. There was all...
What 1968 was to television, 2011 will be to the internet
What follows is a rough approximation of my brief introductory talk at this year’s Ars Electronica Symposium which I co-curated with Isaac Mao. The presentation is on Slideshare. Videos of all the talks are available on the website. The Revolutionary Meme When...
The History and Future of Finance
A few years ago — around the time that the housing bubble went pop — I was having dinner with a group at a swanky soul food restaurant in San Francisco. Just as we were about to order, in walked the boyfriend of one of the girls at the table. Bleached...Latest Photos
