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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [17 Apr 2012]

17 April 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Facebook: Like?

Robert Lane Greene | Intelligent Life | 16 April 2012

Super essay on how Facebook is affecting everday life. "It's not just a technological marvel, a youth movement or a business story. After just eight years of existence, Facebook is the biggest social phenomenon since the telephone" Comments

The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit

Daron Acemoglu | MIT Press | 6 April 2012

Essay. Ten trends have defined our economic, social, and political lives for the past 100 years. The dominant one has been rising demand for individual rights. Will those trends, or different ones, shape the coming century? (PDF) Comments

Nile Journey

Jeffrey Bartholet | National Geographic | 17 April 2012

Report from post-revolution Egypt. Away from Tahrir, life on the ground is a confusing mix of aspirations and fears. “It’s as if we have been lost in the desert. We have found our way, but it will still take a long time to get out” Comments

Evening The Odds

Nicholas Lemann | New Yorker | 16 April 2012

Tour d'horizon of recent books on American inequality and "Superclass" including those by Timothy Noah, Charles Murray, David Rothkopf. Key relationship in society today is no longer church and state, but state and market Comments

Technology In America

Michael Sacasas | American | 13 April 2012

Revisiting Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America provides starting-point for essay questioning the historical effect of America’s “ideology of technology” on its politics and economy Comments

The Forty-Year Itch

Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 16 April 2012

The people who control what gets commissioned for TV shows are generally 40-somethings. Their nostalgia is for the era of and just before their birth. Hence "Mad Men" now. For meanings of the Obama era, tune in in the 2050s Comments

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