Introduction: Silicon Valley days -- Utopia is creepy: the best of Rough Type -- The amorality of web 2.0 -- MySpace's vacancy -- The serendipity machine -- California kings -- The Wikipedian crackup -- Excuse me while I blog -- The metabolic thing -- Big trouble in Second Life -- Look at you! -- Digital sharecropping -- Steve's devices -- Twitter dot dash -- Ghosts in the code -- Go Ask Alice's avatar -- Long player -- Should the net forget? -- The means of creativity -- Vampires -- Behind the hedgerow, eating garbage -- The social graft -- Sexbot aces Turing test -- Looking into a see-through world -- Gilligan's web -- Complete control -- Everything that digitizes must converge -- Resurrection -- Rock-by-number -- Raising the virtual child -- The iPad Luddites -- Nowness -- Charlie bit my cognitive surplus -- Making sharing safe for capitalists -- The quality of allusion is not Google -- Situational overload and ambient overload -- Grand Theft attention -- Memory is the gravity of mind -- The medium is McLuhan -- Facebook's business model -- Utopia is creepy -- Spinelessness -- Future gothic -- The hierarchy of innovation -- Rip, mix, burn, read -- Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful hologram -- Online, offline, and the line between -- Google Glass and Claude Glass -- Burning down the schoolhouse -- The ennui of the intelligent machine -- Reflections -- Will Gutenberg laugh last? -- The searchers -- Eternal sunshine of the spotless AI -- Max Levchin has plans for us -- Evgeny's little problem -- The shortest conversation between two points -- Home away from home -- Charcoal, shale, cotton, tangerine, sky -- Slumming with Buddha -- The quantified self at work -- My computer, my doppeltweeter -- Underwearables -- The bus -- They myth of the endless ladder -- The loom of the self -- Technology below and beyond -- Outsourcing Dad -- Taking measurement's measure -- Smartphones are hot -- Desperate scrapbookers -- Out of control -- Our algorithms, ourselves -- Twilight of the idylls -- The illusion of knowledge -- Wind-fucking -- The seconds are just packed -- Music is the universal lubricant -- Toward a unified theory of love -- <3S and minds -- In the kingdom of the bored, the one-armed bandit is king -- Theses in tweetform -- The eunuch's children: essays and reviews -- Flame and filament -- Is Google making us stupid? -- Screaming for quiet -- The dreams of readers -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of privacy -- Hooked -- Mother Google -- The library of utopia -- The boys of Mountain View -- The eunuch's children -- Past-tense Pop -- The love that lays the swale in rows -- The Snapchat candidate -- Why robots will always need us -- Lost in the cloud -- The Daedalus mission.
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