Shel Israel

Basically a collection of user and personal experiences with using twitter. Includes a recounting of how twitter was founded. Well researched and entertaining up to a point.

This book was written in 2013. But lots of the technology it talks about is either coming out today or still not hitting market yet. The book discusses how sensors are getting put in everything from tires, to phones, to tshirts. They discuss big data. The also discuss how the benefits in some aspects outweigh our loss of privacy. This book makes me excited for what is to come.

A little more theoretical than the title/marketing copy indicated, but gives an overview of the Twitter world.

It was entertainingly written, and a fairly quick read because of it. But the substance was there. It's a great overview of the world we live in today, as well as what's coming next.

I wrote a longer review on my blog: http://thurs.tn/age-of-context