Roger McNamee on Surveillance Capitalism
Two interviews have hit my ears in the past few days, and I highly recommend them both: Nilay Patel interviews Shoshana Zuboff on Vergecast,and Sam Harris interviews Roger McNamee on the Making Sense podcast.
EU approves the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive
We already exist in a sphere where fear of copyright infringement leads to inhibition of content creation—so-called “copyright chill”—and regulations like these, even though they only mandate laws for EU countries, will make this chill worse.