我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

在这里把它作为一个阅读列表。

美国宽带

在她的新书《俘虏的观众：新镀金时代的电信业和垄断力量》的摘录中，奥巴马总统前特别助理苏珊·克劳福德（Susan Crawford）审视了美国全国互联网接入的悲哀、停滞和短视目标。

彭博社观点：苏珊·克劳福德——美国互联网用户为速度较慢的服务付费更多

In 2004, the Lafayette utilities system decided to provide a fiber-to-the-home service. The new network, called LUS Fiber, would give everyone in Lafayette a very fast Internet connection, enabling them to lower their electricity costs by monitoring and adjusting their usage. Push-back from the local telephone company, BellSouth Corp., and the local cable company, Cox Communicati*** Inc., was immediate. They tried to get laws passed to stop the network, sued the city, even forced the town to hold a referendum on the project -- in which the people voted 62 percent in favor. Finally, in February 2007, after five civil lawsuits, the Louisiana Supreme Court voted, 7-0, to allow the network.

在不同的用户上

Branch的乔希·米勒（Josh Miller）在与高中时的妹妹交谈时发现，几代人在使用一些最大的社交网络方面存在一些有趣的差异。同样，看看乔丹·克鲁克在TechCrunch上对Snapchat的看法。

媒体：乔希米勒-十年级技术趋势

My sister maintains that Snapchat is up there with Instagram, in terms of usage amongst her peers. Her exemplary use case was a moment that she captured in the airport of a funny looking man who was snoozing in an awkward position. It’s the type of thing that you want to share with somebody, but it’s insignificance would make it awkward in a text or status update. "It’s a way to connect with friends when you don’t really have anything to say."

关于jaron lanier

罗恩罗森鲍姆介绍了早期互联网先驱杰伦拉尼尔和他打破硅谷主流。

史密森杂志：作者-是什么让贾隆·拉尼尔反对网络？

And then, shortly after the turn of the century, just when the rest of the world was turning on to Web 2.0, Lanier turned against it. With a broadside in Wired called "One-Half of a Manifesto," he attacked the idea that "the wisdom of the crowd" would result in ever-upward enlightenment. It was just as likely, he argued, that the crowd would devolve into an online lynch mob. Lanier became the fiercest and weightiest critic of the new digital world precisely because he came from the Inside. He was a heretic, an apostate rebelling against the ideology, the culture (and the cult) he helped found, and in effect, turning against himself.

关于机器人

凯文·凯利，借助吉米·**坠入北京的照片örk的“充满爱”视频描述了即将到来的机器人革命的前进道路。

连线：凯文凯利-比人类更好

We have preconcepti*** about how an intelligent robot should look and act, and these can blind us to what is already happening around us. To demand that artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots will think different. To see how far artificial intelligence has penetrated our lives, we need to shed the idea that they will be humanlike.

关于勒贝乌斯·伍兹

《****》建筑评论家迈克尔金梅尔曼（michaelkimmelman）将Lebbeus Woods记为该杂志《他们的生活》系列的一部分。

《****》：作者——勒贝乌斯·伍兹

His drawings, haunted and chockablock with weird machines and otherworldly vistas, meditated on destruction, poverty, science and afflicted cities like Sarajevo, Zagreb and Havana, where he imagined quasi-Cubist designs like bandages on open wounds. Accompanied by suggestive but often incomprehensible texts, the drawings mixed Piranesi with Ridley Scott: dystopian throwbacks, painstakingly handcrafted in an era of computer-generated modeling.

论大数据

安德鲁·哈克（Andrew Hacker）查阅了内特·西尔弗（Nate Silver）的最新著作和其他关于不确定性和预测的著作，探讨了我们在预测能力方面的进步和局限性。

纽约书评：安德鲁·哈克——他是怎么做到的

Much is made of ours being an era of Big Data. Silver passes on an estimate from IBM that 2.5 quintillion (that’s seventeen zeros) new bytes (sequences of eight binary digits that each encode a single character of text in a computer) of data are being created every day, representing everything from the brand of toothpaste you bought yesterday to your location when you called a friend this morning. Such information can be put together to fashion personal profiles, which Amazon and Google are already doing in order to target advertisements more accurately. Obama’s tech-savvy workers did something similar, notably in identifying voters who needed extra prompting to go to the polls.

关于约翰·麦克菲

约书亚·戴维斯讲述了约翰·麦卡菲漫长而奇特的故事，从在加州贩卖和吸食可卡因，到通过他成功的麦卡菲伙伴成为一个大富翁，再到他最近在伯利兹、危地马拉和美国的事迹。

连线：约书亚戴维斯-约翰麦卡菲的最后立场

When I tell him that the locals I spoke with can remember only two murders in the past three years, he argues that I’m not asking the right questi***. To illustrate his point, he takes out his pistol. "Let’s do this one more time," he says, and puts it to his head. Another round of Russian roulette. Just as before, he pulls the trigger repeatedly, the cylinder rotates, the hammer comes down, and nothing happens. "It is a real gun. It has a real bullet in one chamber," he says. And yet, he points out, my assumpti*** have somehow proven faulty. I’m missing something.

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