O que significa a Internet para a sociedade?

Are We Puppets in a Wired World?

Sue Halpern

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov

PublicAffairs, 413 pp., $28.99

Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity and Anonymity on the Web

by Cole Stryker

Overlook, 255 pp., $25.95

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

by John Naughton

Quercus, 302 pp., $24.95

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

by Eric Siegel

Wiley, 302 pp., $28.00

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier

Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 242 pp., $27.00

Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

by Alice E. Marwick

Yale University Press, 368 pp., $27.50

Privacy and Big Data: The Players, Regulators and Stakeholders

by Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff

O’Reilly Media, 108 pp., $19.99 (paper)

Eric Edelman/RetroCollage.com Collage by Eric Edelman

Early this year, as part of the $92 million “Data to Decisions” program run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of Naval Research began evaluating computer programs designed to sift through masses of information stored, traded, and trafficked over the Internet that, when put together, might predict social unrest, terrorist attacks, and other events of interest to the military. Blog posts, e-mail, Twitter feeds, weather reports, agricultural trends, photos, economic data, news reports, demographics—each might be a piece of an emergent portrait if only there existed a suitable, algorithmic way to connect them.
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