Tag: internet

What if the Internet doesn’t exist anymore? [Video]

Francois Ferracci’s short movie deals with an apocalyptic scenario:

It’s Oct. 10, 2020. A couple is on a date. They’ve only recently met, he’s crazy about her, and he’s snapping (or digitally producing) thousands of pictures — of her, of them, of Paris; he’s the kind of lover who wants to record everything all the time. She’s a little put off by his techie ardor, but he’s obsessed — until, all of a sudden, his gadget freezes. He can’t take pictures any more. The images he got start — they start to fade. 

Evgeny Morozov- To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism [Article]

James Temple advocates why we need more like Evgeny Morozov, the 28 year old author who has been a vocal opponent of the tech industry’s simplistic view of the world. For eg. Here’s Google’s Eric Schmidt “”The Web will be everything, and it will also be nothing. It will be like electricity. … If we get this right, I believe we can fix all the world’s problems.”

Management exists to minimize the problems created by its own hiring mistakes [Article]

Thus says Scott Adams, referring to a video game company called Valve who have 400 employees, & no management structure, & his own start-up (about which he’s sharing very little, at least yet).  He reckons that the

need for management will shrink- at least for some type of businesses – because entrepreneurs have the tools to make fewer hiring mistakes in the first place 

Internet Nationalism, & a common-sense approach [Article]

Bruce Schneier, writing in the MIT Technology Review warns of the danger that is growing in the name of Internet Nationalism, & reminds us what it really covers up:
But remember: none of this is cyberwar. It’s all espionage, something that’s been going on between countries ever since countries were invented. What moves public opinion is less the facts and more the rhetoric, and the rhetoric of war is what we’re hearing.
He calls for a more sensible approach:
We need to damp down the rhetoric and—more importantly—stop believing the propaganda from those who profit from this Internet nationalism.  Those who are beating the drums of cyberwar don’t have the best interests of society, or the Internet, at heart.