• Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps [NYT]
• The Analog Spaces in Digital Companies [The New Yorker] [Via]
• Smartphone Users Trust Strangers Less [Journalist’s Resource]

• Hail the maintainers. [Aeon]
• The end of upgradable Apple computers. [Motherboard]
• Eye contact is good for you. [Guardian]
• Weapons AI increasingly replacing, not augmenting, human decision making. [Defense One]
• The demoralized mind. [New Internationalist]
• The binge breaker. [Atlantic]
• Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster. [Guardian]

Last three links via Hunther/Gatherer.

• Welcome to Airspace. [The Verge]
• The World Wide Cage. [Aeon]
• The Moral Economy of Tech. [Idle Words] [Thanks to Gabe Finch]

“Are we fixing the right things? Are we breaking the wrong ones? Is it necessary to start from scratch every time?”

• Solving all the wrong problems. [NYT]
• The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret: it is not really yours. [The Verge]
• Farmers demand right to repair their own tractors. [Modern Farmer]
• How technology disrupted the truth. [Guardian]
• The hand-held’s tale. [Aeon]
• Just us. No Phones.

• Your brain is not a computer. [Aeon]
• How technology hijacks people’s minds. [Medium] Via Ran Prieur.
• Picture: Web 0.0 [Biancoshock]

“The technology has made possible undetectable and untraceable manipulations of entire populations that are beyond the scope of existing regulations and laws”

• The New Mind Control. [Aeon]
• Image Overload. [The Conversation]
• Addicted to Distraction. [NYT]
• The Art of Attention. [Aeon]
• Seconds of Pleasure. [The New Inquiry]
• How You Can Use Facebook to Track your Friends Sleeping Habits. [Medium]
• Take This Lollipop. [Connect with Facebook & see what happens, depending on your privacy settings]

Last two links via Carolynne Lord.