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Interesting Things on the Internet: July 20th 2015

• The ethics of digital design. "Startups are optimised for shaking up vulnerable industries rather than assessing the resulting social, legal and ethical impact. Progress itself is the yardstick; whether that progress is in a worthwhile direction is sometimes secondary."
• Unintended Consequences. "Big data is made of people"
• The Web We Have to Save. Amen to all of this.
• everything is recapitulation. Nick Sweeney expands eloquently on the Web We Have to Save.
• A World Without Work. Interesting things for us to be considering, as software eats the world. Maybe the arts and caregiving could become ways that people show they're "adding value" in order to get paid more than the universal citizen's income?
• David Brooks, Commencement Address.
• Thinking Liverpool. Paul's excellent curated mailing list of interesting events in Liverpool.
• The end of capitalism has begun. Paul Mason offers some optimism compared to the web-we-lost and future of work...