The Idea Shop Is Open | Wired Opinion

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/mapping-silicon-valleys-corporate-shuttle-problem/?mbid=social11636024

Here’s an ironic thing: I spend a good part of my day designing maps and data visualizations that represent change, while working out of one of the most change-resistant corners in the city of San Francisco.

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Digital flows of information and the capital that it’s generating are having a material input on the physical landscape.

For the past dozen or so years, the 16th and Mission Street BART plaza below the studio where we work has steadfastly hosted a diverse, rotating cast of characters — from drug dealers and preachers to musicians and hipsters, cheek by jowl with families, social activists, Social Security poets (sadly a shrinking population), and, increasingly but haltingly, young workers in the great technology fields to the south.

#cartographie #visualisation #gentrification #californie #san_francisco #silicon-valley

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/mapping-silicon-valleys-corporate-shuttle-problem/?mbid=social11636024

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#gentrification #US #Silicon_Valley

How Advanced Is the NSA’s Cryptanalysis — And Can We Resist It? | Bruce Schneier | Wired
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/black-budget-what-exactly-are-the-nsas-cryptanalytic-capabilities

There’s a saying inside the NSA: “Cryptanalysis always gets better. It never gets worse.” It’s naive to assume that, in 2013, we have discovered all the mathematical breakthroughs in cryptography that can ever be discovered. There’s a lot more out there, and there will be for centuries. (...)

The NSA has a lot of people thinking about this problem full-time. According to the black budget summary, 35,000 people and $11 billion annually are part of the Department of Defense-wide Consolidated Cryptologic Program. Of that, 4 percent — or $440 million — goes to “Research and Technology.”

That’s an enormous amount of money; probably more than everyone else on the planet spends on cryptography research put together. I’m sure that results in a lot of interesting — and occasionally groundbreaking — cryptanalytic research results, maybe some of it even practical.

Still, I trust the mathematics.

#cryptographie #NSA #recherche #mathématiques #silicon_army

Arrêtez de croire que les hacks techno vont rélger nos problèmes de #surveillance - Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/yah-surveillance-sucks-but-technology-isnt-the-only-solution

Pour Jathan Sadowski, pour répondre à « l’été de la surveillance » dont nous sommes l’objet, nous devons à la fois sécuriser nos communications et penser que la technologie va nous permettre de trouver une solution rapide à nos problèmes de confidentialité. Mais ces deux approches nous détournent de la réforme politique dont nous avons besoin. Nous ne devons pas nous résoudre à une vie où nous devons sans cesse protéger notre confidentialité car c’est une bataille perdue d’avance. Il est temps de rappeller (...)

#vieprivée #vieprivee #nsa

Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance

If everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective.

Oubliez les Google Glass, voici les #interfaces du futur - Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/forget-glass-these-are-the-interfaces-of-the-future/?cid=co8525634

Pour David Gelernter, nos interfaces changent peu. L’achitecture des immeubles de bureaux a plus évoluée que nos bureaux, qui demeurent pareils à ceux des années 60. Nos interfaces portables (lunettes, montres...) n’ont pas changé par rapport à leurs précurseurs analogiques. Pourquoi nos ordinateurs se ressemblent-ils tous, jusque dans les matières dont ils sont fait ? Matériel et logiciel doivent être conçus ensembles, estime Gelernter. Pourquoi nos téléphones ont-ils besoin d’un écran ? Pourquoi ne (...)

#design

Don’t Hate Google for Reader — Award It the Nobel Prize for Books | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Signalé par Antoine Jacob

▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/start-essay-and-the-winner-is

When the Nobel Prizes launched in 1901, possible choices for the award in literature, bestowed upon a living writer to honor their entire life’s work, included such historical titans as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, and Henry James. The Swedish Academy—18 elders with absolute power to choose the winner—instead gave the first medal to a formalist poet named Sully Prudhomme and the second, in 1902, to a historian named Theodor Mommsen.

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How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/digital-natives-etiquette-be-damned

La génération GitHub : pourquoi sommes-nous tous open source ? - Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/github

Conçue comme une plateforme logicielle ouverte à la collaboration, GitHub est devenu beaucoup plus que cela, estime Mikeal Rogers pour Wired. Il a fait à l’open source ce que l’internet à fait à l’édition, permettant à quiconque de modifier les données qui y sont publiées et de les exploiter. La manière de fonctionner de GitHub encourage les gens à faire toutes sortes d’améliorations. Les contributeurs du mouvement open source ne sont plus seulement les développeurs qui travaillaient à un projet (...)

#développement #opensource

Méfiez-vous des erreurs des Big Data - Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-people

Pour Nassim Taleb, les Big Data peuvent fournir plus d’informations, mais surtout plus de fausses informations. Peut-on faire confiance aux sciences orientées par les statistiques ? Plus il y a de variables, plus les corrélations peuvent montrer des significations. Le bruit est antifragile, estime Taleb. Il y a de l’information cachée dans les Big Data, mais l’aiguille est dans une botte de foin plus grande. Tags : internetactu fing (...)

#bigdata

The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it

Plutôt que de nous focaliser sur les Big Data, si on prêtait attention aux Long Data - Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data

Pour le mathématicien Samuel Arbesman, plus que les Big Data, nous devrions porter attention aux Long Data, aux données qui permettent d’avoir un large balayage historique. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’elles nous permettent non pas d’avoir un instantané, mais de voir les processus et interactions qui se déroulent au fil du temps. Elles permettent de comprendre comment le monde change et comment nous changeons avec lui. Bref, nous permettre de mieux appréhender notre avenir. Tags : (...)

#bigdata

A Eulogy for #Occupy | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all

On the night of Nov. 15, they hadn’t merely shot the messenger. They’d done that too, but they’d beat the people that had come back from the future with lifeboats. Like Anonymous and Piratbyrån ►https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyr%C3%A5n before them, OWS was a messenger from the future, not so much fighting the system as explaining to the old way of doing things that it had already lost. That future, still nebulous, soaked into the nondescript stones of Zuccotti. But the old world around us had rejected the message from the new world, never understanding that theirs was a mission of mercy to the lost.

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Je signalais il y a un an l’immersion de Quinn Norton ►http://seenthis.net/messages/39525 , voilà qu’elle en fait le bilan.

How TED Became a Consumer Franchise | Wired Business | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/ff-tedx/all

a phrase — field-configuring event — to describe the role that gatherings play in the information age [...] Despite the fact that these fields all have their own media (trade journals, newsletters, etc.) to inform them, the gatherings cut through the flurry of information to set priorities, to confer status, to codify collective judgments.

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It’s telling, the ways in which the spirit of the TEDx experiment has seeped out into the rest of the organization. In 2013, half the speakers on the main stage at #TED will be programmed through a talent search, fed by tryouts in 14 TEDx-style events on six different continents. For all the inherent elitism of the “thought-leader conference” as a concept, [...]

#marketing des idées

Voir aussi The #Patent Problem cette fois sur les #brevets des idées
►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/ff-steven-levy-the-patent-problem/all #patent_troll

Trolling is a multibillion-dollar industry—because the legal system favors it.

When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/feudal-security

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In this new world of computing, we give up a certain amount of control, and in exchange we trust that our lords will both treat us well and protect us from harm. Not only will our software be continually updated with the newest and coolest functionality, but we trust it will happen without our being overtaxed by fees and required upgrades. We trust that our data and devices won’t be exposed to hackers, criminals, and malware. We trust that governments won’t be allowed to illegally spy on us.

Trust is our only option. In this system, we have no control over the security provided by our feudal lords. We don’t know what sort of security methods they’re using, or how they’re configured. We mostly can’t install our own security products on iPhones or Android phones; we certainly can’t install them on Facebook, Gmail, or Twitter. Sometimes we have control over whether or not to accept the automatically flagged updates – iPhone, for example – but we rarely know what they’re about or whether they’ll break anything else. (On the Kindle, we don’t even have that freedom.)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I’m not saying that feudal security is all bad. For the average user, giving up control is largely a good thing. These software vendors and cloud providers do a lot better job of security than the average computer user would. Automatic cloud backup saves a lot of data; automatic updates prevent a lot of malware. The network security at any of these providers is better than that of most home users.

#Cybercrime: #Mobile Changes Everything — And No One’s Safe | Wired
►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/10/from-spyware-to-mobile-malware

Finfisher and Loofzon malware, which spies on our data and leaks GPS positions to track our movements. While these threats appear to have been developed for government surveillance purposes, they can of course be used by any organization.

#surveillance

Technology and Democracy: Wired Magazine Elitism versus Pirate Party Openness
►http://chieforganizer.org/2012/05/03/technology-and-democracy-wired-magazine-elitism-versus-pirate-party-

An article by Wired contributing editor, Joshua Davis, called “Fewer Voters, Better Elections,” was breathtaking in its elitism and implicit attack on democracy. Citing two current research studies, one disappointingly from Stanford, Davis argues for a random “statistically valid” sample of 100,000 of our 313 million citizens who would be polled on the questions and candidates of the day. Davis deftly avoids the gaping holes in his argument against mass citizen participation by citing the litany of problems with the current system (lack of participation, problems of campaign financing, TV ads) and arguing for a system of random participation in “small group deliberations” which would have more time and ability to make “informed” decisions, which he likens to jury pools, ignoring all evidence to the problems with juries as well.

L’article de Wired : ►http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/05/st_essay_voting

#Démocratie #Vote #Wired #Etats-Unis