Top Highlights

• The panoptic sort works to control us by shaping our behaviors, our expectations, as well as our reactions to society and to each other.
• Pattie Maes has been an innovative, productive contributor to the MIT Media Lab for nearly two decades, and was a founder of Firefly Networks, Inc. She has done groundbreaking research into intelligent agents and artificial intelligence, working both with other researchers and independently.
• some accommodation must be found between limited human attention spans and increasingly complex collections of software and data.