Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 1st from 14:30 to 13:15:

• Automation turns us from actors into observers –
• Smartphones are killing us — and destroying public life –
• The Guardian’s “NSA Files Decoded” and Multimedia Journalism –
• Isaac Asimov’s I Robot: To Obey : Mickey Zucker Reichert | Hardcover | 9780451464828 | Bookish.com – I had no idea there were still Susan Calvin books coming out
• Stranger in a Strange Land – drwave: This is great: RT @jsnell: This is a wonderful, wonderful piece by @jazayerli about Orson Scott Card (and much more) http://t.co/mIiBboP4g4
• Exclusive: Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 Successor Plan –