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Revisiting this 2016 story about the early internet surfers from Yahoo! Tasked with cataloging the internet in its earliest days. (gift link)
Human Internet and Cognitive immunity maps.
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-people thought that web culture was healthy.
-they didnt know what the business model was but thought that one would come along in the future.
-here we are in the future and still nothing has come along.
-digital vertigo, a nightmare in which everyone is being taken advantage of.
-we are all being watched and privacy is being destroyed.
-Keen argues that we are at a point where we need to look at the internet and see if its working, has it been a success or a failure.
-its not to early anymore to tell if the internet is doing what we thought it would.
-we thought the internet would be democratizing, provide more opportunity, create jobs, enable freedom (culturally, economically, socially, sexually).
-we are at a point where we can conclude that the internet is not working.
-we wanted the internet to be right, we wanted it to make the world a better place.
-the law of unintended consequences.
-whatsapp is a company that employed 55 people and sold for 19 billion dollars. Kodak employed 40,000 went bankrupt. we are not creating jobs.
-machine learning leads to fewer jobs.
-the digital revolution is not creating jobs.
-”the unemployment crisis is not cyclical its structural and much of it is bound up with the digitalization of the world.”
-the 21st century world that we live in is characterized by a massive amount of inequality, and the disappearance of the middle.
-you cant blame the internet for this inequality but its an increasingly central part of it.
-what we’re seeing is a winner take all digital economy.
-we have a data factory economy that we are all working in for free.
-we were given great technology for free and that everyones a winner.
-we failed to create a viable business model.
-people make vast fortunes spying on us.
-facebook says they want to wire the whole world to help the world, but they actually just want to add people to their network. its just business. its dishonest.
-”we are drifting into a distopia. a world of massive companies, radical inequality and the disappearance of the middle”
-technology is driving everything.
-as a platform the internet is not working for organizing our world.
-uber is breaking every regulation.
-we have a world with a lack of regulation, a lack of foresite, fetishization of the idea of disruption.
-we are idealizing disruption and a lack of laws.
-one answer is regulation, we have to recognize that regulation is necessary for innovation.
-we need self regulation, companies coming together to fight piracy.
-we have a new industrial revolution. during the original industrial revolution we needed regulation (child labor, labor safety)
-we need regulation in order to build a better world.
-the internet will never create utopia, but at the moment it is creating the opposite, it is creating distopia and that needs to change.
-it is our responsibility to work together to make it better.
-Facebook bought whatsapp because they wanted the phone numbers and the right to listen in on all the conversations.
-”we experience and manipulate the world via our devices and services.”
-tech is not optional anymore, it is essential to our lives.
-wether or not it works or if it works has the potential to empower or enfeeble us.
-google, facebook, apple, twitter, etc. own the tools that effect how we experience reality.
-the people that own these tools and services all run on the “free” business model.
-”schnailmail.com” metaphor.
-algorithms read your emails to learn about you.
-this surveillance isnt evil, its just business. their business model is to monetize your data.
-google needs data to grow and they collect this data through services.
“the business model of free is corporate surveillance.”
-”if youre not paying for it...youre the quarry being mined...data is the raw material.”
-”we know where you are. we know where youve been. we can more or less know what youre thinking.” -Eric Schmidt of google
-the government gets data from from companies.
-privacy is not about wether or not you have something to hide. its about having control over what you share and what you keep to yourself.
-privacy is a human right.
-if public becomes the default then anything private has an association of guilt.
-we barter with our data which we dont know the value of.
-”with the business model of free, Google and its ilk are emerging as the greatest threats to our civil liberties.”
-free is a con.
-”the monopoly of the free business model is leading us down the path to Digital Feudalism.”
-Digital Feudalism is a point where you dont have the option to own your own tools and data, you have to rent them.
-we need free and open.
-people cant necessarily do this themselves, its hard.
-the experience and process of owning our own tools and data needs to be easier and better.
-we need solutions on the consumer level.
-we need experience-driven free and open.
-”experience-driven free and open technologies are a prerequisite to empowering regular people to own their own tools and data.”
-indie-tech is design led, free and open, and independent.
-why?
-”the difference between a society in which we can own our tools and data and one in which we cant, is the difference between a society where we can enjoy our privacy, or one in which we dont have the tools that we need to protect our privacy and our civil liberties.
We hit 250 followers, so I decided to post this silly little thing.
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Edit: I apparently called it subscribers when I meant Followers
