Why not take a break from the fire hose of Twitter and RSS and check out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about technology, culture, media, and the future? Tom Scocca digs into how the new RoboCop remake misses the point of the original. Gawker: Tom Scocca – The New RoboCop Is What RoboCop Meant to Kill The process of rebooting RoboCop wiped all of this away—the anger, the comedy, and the underlying self-awareness.