我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

在這裡把它作為一個閱讀列表。

美國寬頻

在她的新書《俘虜的觀眾：新鍍金時代的電信業和壟斷力量》的摘錄中，奧巴馬總統前特別助理蘇珊·克勞福德（Susan Crawford）審視了美國全國網際網路接入的悲哀、停滯和短視目標。

彭博社觀點：蘇珊·克勞福德——美國網際網路使用者為速度較慢的服務付費更多

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.

在不同的使用者上

Branch的喬希·米勒（Josh Miller）在與高中時的妹妹交談時發現，幾代人在使用一些最大的社交網路方面存在一些有趣的差異。同樣，看看喬丹·克魯克在TechCrunch上對Snapchat的看法。

媒體：喬希米勒-十年級技術趨勢

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."

關於jaron lanier

羅恩羅森鮑姆介紹了早期網際網路先驅傑倫拉尼爾和他打破矽谷主流。

史密森雜誌：作者-是什麼讓賈隆·拉尼爾反對網路？

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.

關於機器人

凱文·凱利，藉助吉米·**墜入北京的照片örk的“充滿愛”影片描述了即將到來的機器人革命的前進道路。

連線：凱文凱利-比人類更好

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.

關於勒貝烏斯·伍茲

《****》建築評論家邁克爾金梅爾曼（michaelkimmelman）將Lebbeus Woods記為該雜誌《他們的生活》系列的一部分。

《****》：作者——勒貝烏斯·伍茲

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.

論大資料

安德魯·哈克（Andrew Hacker）查閱了內特·西爾弗（Nate Silver）的最新著作和其他關於不確定性和預測的著作，探討了我們在預測能力方面的進步和侷限性。

紐約書評：安德魯·哈克——他是怎麼做到的

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.

關於約翰·麥克菲

約書亞·戴維斯講述了約翰·麥卡菲漫長而奇特的故事，從在加州販賣和吸食可卡因，到透過他成功的麥卡菲夥伴成為一個大富翁，再到他最近在貝里斯、瓜地馬拉和美國的事跡。

連線：約書亞戴維斯-約翰麥卡菲的最後立場

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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