America can’t afford to leave its government in the hands of professionals.
Source: Democracy Is for Amateurs: Why We Need More Citizen Citizens – The Atlantic
This needs: Hope springs a trap | The Economist
The power of positive reinforcement is *huge*.
Until we make the Internet secure, cyber criminals will continue to pull off high-value, low-risk offenses
Source: Why Internet crime goes unpunished | InfoWorld
How severe do punishments need to be to make up for the low probability of getting caught?
The next wave of digital products won’t just be about archiving the web; they’ll be about destroying that archive.
Source: Forget About It: Making the Internet More Like Our Brains – The Atlantic
How much should people be allowed to clean up the evidence of mistakes, real and perceived, in their past? If 2 people are involved in an event and one wants to memorialize it and the other to forget and erase it, whose will/choice will be/live on on the Internet?
When a product is able to become tightly coupled with a thought, an emotion, or a pre-existing habit, it creates an “internal trigger.” Unlike external triggers, which are sensory stimuli, like a phone ringing or an ad online telling us to “click here now!,” you can’t see, touch, or hear an internal trigger. Internal triggers manifest automatically in the mind and creating them is the brass ring of consumer technology.
Source: The Billion Dollar Mind Trick | TechCrunch
Is “free will” doomed to manipulation by modern psychology powered by big data?
Artist Lizz Aston used to think her picture on Facebook helped business until Toronto Police used it as an online suspect lineup.
Source: Toronto cops threw the (Face)book at her
Why wasn’t their database of drivers’ license photos sufficient? Is this why you shouldn’t have real pictures of yourself online? Is this a breach of privacy/trust? Is it permissible for someone to choose to share something with “everyone but the state”?