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Interesting Things on the Internet: February 12th 2018

• The Catalog of Missing Devices. The EFF imagines products that might exist if "content" companies weren't such control-freaks.
• Privacy could be the next big thing. Excellent call-to-arms for (good, ethical) companies to work on the we-aren't-hoovering-up-your-data story they tell. George coined the term "data dumb" when we were discussing these sort of issues for Museum in a Box last week.
• A conversation about how public transport really works. "transport, nevertheless, takes place in physical space and physical space obeys laws of geometry and physics and no technology is ever going to change geometry—never has, never will". Really good piece on transport, especially in cities.
• The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence
. Archiving is hard, even when you don't have companies trying to lock you into their solutions so they can profit from the struggle.
• No one’s coming. It’s up to us. A call to arms for society getting more involved in defining the problems we want to fix with technology, rather than defaulting to whatever the technologists want to give us.