Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship

This is why the emancipation of authorship will detonate the old institutional world just as the previous emancipations of content did: the emancipation of writing and the emancipation of reading.

This brings to mind Marshall McLuhan’s idea: the medium shapes the user.[10] If the Internet gives people the possibility to become actively involved, the individual gets drawn into this possibility and begins to behave accordingly. This remarkable quality of the Internet is beginning to be felt: what is possible becomes obligatory (we will encount

An Internet presence is no longer an additional business opportunity – it’s a matter of existence. If you’re not on the Internet, you’re not in business. We’ll soon say the same about human beings. No links – no human.

The development of content filtration undoubtedly brings with it new risks. By their very nature, these are ecological risks. We are entering a new, digital living environment.

On the other hand, relevance algorithms create that very same Filter Bubble, the impervious cocoon that locks our future outlooks within the prison of our past preferences. If a robot judges exclusively by what we have liked previously, we will lose the chance for serendipity, accidental meetings with unexpected information that may expand our perc

We are still in the stone age of the Internet. Human doesn’t have experience of digital existence and therefore sees novelty as something worrying, often even a threat. On a state level there is a desire to regulate the digital environment for the sake of the comfort and stability of the people, or indeed, of the state itself. What is more, the dig

The growth in extremism and terrorism is the flip side of ICT (information and communications technology) development. This is the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups.

Equality of opinion and freedom of publication threaten the notion of formal authority on which the previous social order was based.

For this system and this business to exist, an institutional social arrangement based on deficit is critically important. When there is no deficit, the old institutions, losing ground, even try to create one artificially. The creation in online media of an artificial pay-wall, if you think about it, is totally contrary to the spirit and social dime