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Aleks Krotoski

American broadcaster, journalist and social psychologist who writes about the social side of technology; presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Digital Human; author of Untangling the Web.

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26 October

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From one piece The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’t 3 beliefs · messy-humans.ghost.io

2 October

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From one piece My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong. 3 beliefs · messy-humans.ghost.io

15 January

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From one piece The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life Pt 1: The technofundamentalists 2 beliefs · messy-humans.ghost.io

25 June 2015

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    Life on the Screen

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    With a book by a professor at MIT called Sherry Turkle: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, which was published in 1995.

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    My Tiny Life

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    It’s called My Tiny Life by a journalist called Julian Dibbell, who is a fascinating observer of online communities.

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    Snow Crash

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    That’s why I like Snow Crash so much: because it exposed that phenomenon of what they were thinking and what they do, and the pure data that they have access to.

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    Neuromancer

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    Neuromancer by William Gibson is the seminal cyberpunk book: it’s the thing that the web is based on.

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    Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

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    Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan Watts, who until recently was at Columbia University – he’s now at Yahoo Research.

    fivebooks.com

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