The End of the Internet Dream? — Backchannel — Medium
►https://medium.com/backchannel/the-end-of-the-internet-dream-ba060b17da61
In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that.
The End of the Internet Dream? — Backchannel — Medium
►https://medium.com/backchannel/the-end-of-the-internet-dream-ba060b17da61
In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that.
La fin du rêve de l’internet - Medium
▻http://alireailleurs.tumblr.com/post/128543168116
Sur Medium, l’avocate Jennifer Granick (@granick), directrice des #libertés civiles au Centre pour l’internet et la société de Stanford, a retranscrit la présentation qu’elle a livrée à la dernière conférence Black Hat 2015 (video). Une réflexion (de plus) sur la fin de l’internet qui rappelle la désillusion du blogueur iranien Hossein Derakhshan qui a été beaucoup partagé au début de l’été (Six ans après, internet se recroqueville” - voir notamment le commentaire qu’en livraire Olivier Ertzscheid), en plus radical encore.Pour Granick, l’internet des pionniers est en train de mourir. “Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, nous avons priorisé des choses comme la sécurité, la civilité en ligne, l’interface utilisateur, et les intérêts de la propriété intellectuelle plutôt que la liberté et l’ouverture. L’Internet (...)
Mais si l’on blâme les entreprises et les gouvernements, il faut aussi faire le mea culpa des utilisateurs, nous, nous qui avons quitté les blogs pour Facebook, nos serveurs de messagerie pour Gmail, cédé aux bienfaits du nuage, cette informatique oligopolistique qui renforce le contrôle, la surveillance et la régulation.
Je dois être terriblement rétrograde, et vieux, de penser que la première régression n’est pas de passer des blogs à Facebook, mais de passer aux blogs. Pour moi la créativité sur internet, c’était avant les blogs. Oui, ça doit sûrement donner une indication de mon grand âge.
All Technology is Assistive — Backchannel — Medium
▻https://medium.com/backchannel/all-technology-is-assistive-ac9f7183c8cd
All #technology is #assistive technology. Honestly — what technology are you using that’s not assistive? Your #smartphone? Your #eyeglasses? #Headphones? And those three examples alone are assisting you in multiple registers: They’re enabling or augmenting a sensory experience, say, or providing navigational information.
Ouep.
Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule, by Leslie Berlin — Medium
▻https://medium.com/backchannel/why-silicon-valley-will-continue-to-rule-c0cbb441e22f
The skills learned through building and commercializing one layer of the pearl underpinned and supported the development of the next layer or developments in related industries. Apple, for instance, is a company that people often speak of as sui generis, but Apple Computer’s early key employees had worked at Intel, Atari, or Hewlett-Packard. Apple’s venture capital backers had either backed Fairchild or Intel or worked there.
(...) Stanford, meanwhile, was actively trying to build up its physics and engineering departments. Professor (and Provost from 1955 to 1965) Frederick Terman worried about a “brain drain” of Stanford graduates to the East Coast, where jobs were plentiful. So he worked with President J.E. Wallace Sterling to create what Terman called “a community of technical scholars” in which the links between industry and academia were fluid. This meant that as the new transistor-cum-microchip companies began to grow, technically knowledgeable engineers were already there. These trends only accelerated as the population exploded.
(...) Historian Richard White says that the modern American West was “born modern” because the population followed, rather than preceded, connections to national and international markets. Silicon Valley was born post-modern, with those connections not only in place but so taken for granted that people were comfortable experimenting with new types of business structures and approaches strikingly different from the traditional East Coast business practices with roots nearly two centuries old.
(...) timing was crucial. Silicon Valley was kick-started by federal dollars. Whether it was the Department of Defense buying 100% of the earliest microchips, Hewlett-Packard and Lockheed selling products to military customers, or federal research money pouring into Stanford, Silicon Valley was the beneficiary of Cold War fears that translated to the Department of Defense being willing to spend almost anything on advanced electronics and electronic systems. The government, in effect, served as the Valley’s first venture capitalist.
(...) 2/3 of people in working in sci-tech Valley industries who have completed their college education are foreign born. Silicon Valley, now, as in the past, is built and sustained by immigrants.
(...) Venture capital is important for developing products into companies, but the federal government still funds the great majority of basic research in this country. Silicon Valley is highly dependent on that basic research — “No Basic Research, No iPhone” is my favorite title from a recently released report on research and development in the United States.
#disruption #silicon_valley #histoire #silicon_army cc @thibnton
Les médias sociaux vus par un ado - Medium
▻http://alireailleurs.tumblr.com/post/108813151045
Nombre d’entre vous ont certainement partagé ce billet d’Andrew Watts sur Medium (le regard d’un adolescent sur les médias sociaux écrit par un réel adolescent - il y a même une seconde partie), où ce jeune inconnu de 19 ans dresse la liste des #réseaux_sociaux populaires dans sa classe d’âge. Mais populaire pour qui ? s’interroge très justement danah boyd sur Medium (@zephoria). Il n’est pas le premier adolescent a parler des technologies de sa génération et obtenir une grande attention… Il y en aura d’autres. Mais la chercheuse de Microsoft, spécialiste des cultures numériques adolescentes, est gênée de l’interprétation que les gens en font. Les #adolescents sont bien plus divers que ceux pour lesquels parle Andrew Watts. Son rejet de Twitter par exemple (“Pour être honnête, la plupart d’entre nous ne (...)
« Comment un #adolescent voit les #réseaux_sociaux » pour une fois écrit par un adolescent, en anglais
►https://medium.com/backchannel/a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-1df945c09ac6
Bon, et @seenthis alors ? On attend le petit picto :))
Ben @seenthis c’est un peu un réseau social pour vieux cons non ? :-)
Deux citations :
Let me put this bluntly: teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background.
The fact that professionals prefer anecdotes from people like us over concerted efforts to understand a demographic as a whole is shameful.
Deux articles en réaction (pas lu, j’archive) :
When it comes to social media, teens are not all created equal — Tech News and Analysis
▻https://gigaom.com/2015/01/12/when-it-comes-to-social-media-teens-are-not-all-created-equal
An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media — The Message — Medium
►https://medium.com/message/an-old-fogeys-analysis-of-a-teenagers-view-on-social-media-5be16981034d
My Little Sister Taught Me How To Snapchat Like “The Teens”
►http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens