Technobiophilia

Will Google+ drown in the Emerald Sea?

I've come to this discovery rather late. It was first discussed in March 2011 when Steven Levy's new book In the Plex came out, but it's still worth a mention. I've written before about the importance of watery imagery in the internet industry and this is a great example. 

Matt Rosoff explains in a post for Business Insider that Google is 'supernervous' about the threat from Facebook, to the point that  'Last year, Google engineer Urs Holzle -- who was one of Google's first ten employees -- sent around an urgent internal memo warning that Google would be crushed if it didn't figure out its social strategy.The team named their social project "Emerald Sea" after this painting of a wave knocking a ship over -- Google was the ship -- and then recreated that painting outside the elevators where they worked.'

Best cyberspace storytellers?

Opinions please re important cyberspace storytellers! In his 2004 book The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco listed the important cyberspace storytellers, or 'bricoleurs', as Negroponte, Gates, Gore and Dyson. (Yes, it seems a rather dated list for 2004! Not to mention 100% USA and 75% male.)

But it leads me to ask: who would you say are the important cyberspace storytellers today? Who frames the experience of the internet in a way which makes sense and inspires you for the future?