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Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

If your personal data makes it onto some public blockchain, it’s likely on many machines spread all over the world, with no singular entity able or willing to take the ‘controller’ liability bullet. That’s the ‘nobody’: there’s no ‘real or legal person’ the EU can nail to the wall for not deleting data or whatever else their precious GDPR stipulate... See more

Antonio Garcia Martinez • The right to never be forgotten

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Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

If we allow those who control the present to control the past then they control the future. That’s George Orwell. We need to know what came before. Because the web flips on and off, actually most of the best of the web is already off the web.

Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode

Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandoms and online influencer culture — along wi... See more

nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times

The existing Internet architecture is top-heavy with apps that can do anything you could want for free, and porous in its underlying protocols to establish identities, property rights, and other facets of the ground state of the system. As a global copying machine, the Internet founders in establishing origins, facts, truths, timestamps, and ground

George Gilder • Life After Google

Internet est un bien commun. Rien ne doit disparaître ni être récupéré. Sa Wayback Machine consigne le temps numérique. Lui-même ressemble au scientifique allumé du film Retour vers le futur. Ensemble, Aaron et Brewster entreprennent de numériser toutes les publications de l’humanité pour les laisser en accès libre. C’est l’Open Library, la bibliot

Flore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)

It is providing, he wrote, echoing John Perry Barlow, “a new mind for an old species.” In the end, “we will live inside this thing.”

Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch

You Are What You Own

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