On neurofiction, the evolution of mobile computing, therapy for internet multitaskers, a writing tool designed for web-bound text and the growing trend for disappearing messages.

Our reads this week delve into mobile identity, our feelings towards our work stations, the great gadget-addiction question, a future of 3D printing, and a promising deal between BitTorrent and a musician.

Our articles of the week talk about brands in science fiction, startups in the Philippines, mobile vs mobility, predicting violence with algorithms, and empathizing with machines.

A week that prominently featured outcry over how web services handle our data, a Q&A with Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and some thoughts on the Death of the Cyberflâneur.

This week our picks for your weekend reading deal with Google and its competition, mobile marketing, Starbucks’ branding genius and a deep essay about the open web.

Ambient Intimacy. A small observation about how we share our location, how we want to interact with the information that we are sharing and why the future of LBS is not bound to the small screen of our smartphone.

As mobile devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it seems the discussion about mobile itself faded into the sub-categories of mobile itself. While this is meaningful and understandable, it is also helpful to dive into some of the more abstract factors of the topic. This slides should be helpful for that.