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#internet vs Blockchain Revolution: Are we in 1994? What to expect Next? (Part 5)
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This article is part of the Internet vs Blockchain Revolution Series. If you are interested in reading the other articles, check out this post.Internet vs Blockchain Revolution: the evolution of the market, infrastructures, and companiesAre we in 1994?Interestingly, when Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, found himself in Silicon Valley in early 1994, he thought that he was too late and missed the whole thing as the short recession of 1990–1991 hit the #technology industry hard. The current stage of blockchain and #cryptocurrency development is most analogous to the Internet Revolution in 1994, in which we have invented TCP/IP, HTML, and FTP, and out of these will lead to the development of Netscape (1994) and much later Facebook (2004), and Airbnb (2008). In blockchain, we are (...)

#hackernoon-top-story #blockchain-technology

Cowen, Andreessen, and Horowitz: Annotated
▻https://hackernoon.com/cowen-andreessen-and-horowitz-annotated-e0e30b55cfe6?source=rss----3a814

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Tyler Cowen, Ben Horowitz, and Marc AndreessenThis podcast, in which Tyler Cowen interviews Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, contains a number of interesting observations. In what follows, I recapitulate some of the observations and add my own comments.The view from 1995Andreessen and Horowitz first collaborated in 1995, when Horowitz left an established, successful company, Lotus Notes, to work with Andreessen at a high-flying #startup, Netscape. Andreessen points out that the big issue dividing the tech world was whether or not the Internet was going to actually solve the problem of connecting the world’s computers. As late as 1995, there were still many major companies that were working on technology that would be valuable if and only if the Internet did not work. That was a bad (...)

#tyler-cowen #ben-horowitz #tech-podcasts #marc-andreessen

What is Salesforce? Four days, 170,000 people, and one Metallica concert later, I figured out what Salesforce is — Quartz
►https://qz.com/1500717/what-is-salesforce-four-days-170000-people-and-one-metallica-concert-later-i-fig

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I had not registered for this session, and had to convince the conference bouncers that my press pass allowed me entry. They allowed me to attend on the condition that I wouldn’t take up a precious chair.

What dawned on me over the course of this discussion was the sheer ubiquity of software.
I agreed and sat in a chair at the far end of the room. Slowly, several people, all of them white, nearly all of them women, joined our table. One worked for a community bank in Wisconsin. Another for Freddie Mac. Two of the women, it turned out, worked for the company my brother co-founded, which often helps financial firms with Salesforce.

This was the closest I had come to understanding what Salesforce is actually good for, beyond throwing swanky parties. Everyone at the table had used Salesforce to solve problems at their companies. It had worked well. They had many more problems, and wanted to figure out the best way to use the platform to solve those, too. As they discussed how best to “leverage Financial Services Cloud,” their heads nodded.

What dawned on me over the course of this discussion was the sheer ubiquity of software. Yes, it is several years now since Marc Andreessen wrote that “software is eating the world.” But it’s not just the smartphones and websites that we have come to be familiar with as “software.” It’s literally everything. Do anything in a modern city and it will trigger a long string of computational processes. Test-drive a car, express interest in an insurance plan, apply for a loan, contribute to a nonprofit, use a credit card, call airline customer service, change a t-shirt order from “large” to “medium,” and you will be entered into a database, added to annual reports, sent automated emails, plugged into “people who buy X also buy Y” algorithms. This is obviously true for hip startups like AirBnb. It is also true for boring, ancient, bailed-out behemoths like Freddie Mac.

Usually, the software that runs in the dark server rooms of non-tech companies either comes with hefty license fees or is barely functional, hacked together over years by in-house coders who have come and gone. Information relevant to the company may be spread across hundreds of spreadsheets and thousands of emails, accessible only from certain computers or networks. One of the chief complaints of the woman from Freddie Mac was that the company has “a lot of legacy systems” that need to be modernized.

“Enterprise software”—specifically “customer relationship management” software—aims to solve, or at least alleviate, such problems. Benioff’s insight was to do so using the “cloud.” Instead of charging people for a license to use your software, a la Windows XP, have them pay for a subscription to use your service, which can be accessed anywhere. It’s like Gmail, but for all of the mind-numbing tasks of the modern salesperson, customer service representative, or middle manager, like inputting what happened on a call with a customer or generating inventory reports. No more understaffed IT departments, no more inaccessible spreadsheets, no more massive upfront costs.

These days, most people use several cloud-based services, like Spotify or Dropbox. It’s why the Google Chromebook can be a thing, and why Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, can get by without ever using a computer. It’s why Salesforce can count among its several mascots SaaSy, named after “Software as a Service,” a dancing white circle with arms and legs, but no face, that displays the word “software” in a red circle with a red line crossing it out. Nothing to install, just the cloud. That is sassy.

But Benioff was onto the idea early. Less than 20 years have passed since he staged a sassy fake protest at the annual conference of the incumbent CRM giant, Siebel Systems, with protesters chanting, “The internet is really neat, software is obsolete!” Now 89 of the companies on the Fortune 100 use Salesforce. For the past three years, Salesforce has grown over 20% year-over-year every single quarter.

What is Salesforce? Four days, 170,000 people, and one Metallica concert later, I figured out what Salesforce is — Quartz
►https://qz.com/1500717/what-is-salesforce-four-days-170000-people-and-one-metallica-concert-later-i-fig

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Giving more people access to high-paying tech jobs. Looks great.

Soon after that, though, a darker, less altruistic interpretation of “inclusive capitalism” began to emerge. One that sees it not primarily as a way to bring in the excluded, but to boost the Salesforce brand, to fortify the cult, to attract talent and investors. To establish a place in history.

After the PepUp Tech video, another told the story of billionaire Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli, who uses Salesforce at his company. Cucinelli was himself in attendance. After the video finished, he took the microphone and spoke directly to Benioff in rapid-fire Italian, through an interpreter, as if he were the effusive prognosticator of an ancient king.

“For your birthday,” Cucinelli pronounced, “I have a special request to submit to you.” This was how I learned that the keynote speech was happening on the day of Benioff’s 54th birthday.

If “inclusive capitalism” has any chance of succeeding, one could hope for no better agent than Benioff.
“I would like you, in this special world, which is the cradle of genius, you should envision something that lasts for the next 2,000 years,” Cucinelli continued. “In ancient Greece, Pericles 2,500 years ago stated, ‘as long as our Parthenon is standing, our Athens will be standing, too.’ In ancient Rome, Hadrian stated, ‘I feel responsible for the beauty in the world,’ and he states, ‘my Rome will be there forever.’ In my Florence, during the Renaissance, there is Lorenzo the Magnificent, another genius, who basically sits around the same table, Michelangelo, Leonardo, all together, and they design and plan for eternity…I think you, Marc, you could be the new Lorenzo the Magnificent of this side of the world.”

Benioff was certainly positive about the first video, but this speech appeared to affect him in a deeper way. Salesforce Tower is now the tallest building in San Francisco. There is a children’s hospital in the city with his name on it. Maybe not quite 2,000 years, but those will last. And with Time under his belt, Benioff is in a position to become known as the guy who figured out how to improve the world while making loads of cash. He has deflected suggestions that he intends to run for political office by saying he can do even more good as a CEO.

If “inclusive capitalism” has any chance of succeeding, one could hope for no better agent than Benioff. He’s a large, imposing, wealthy white man with ties to cultural icons and A-level politicians, but also to community leaders and local activists. Instead of making grand, world-changing gestures to “cure all diseases,” his focus is local, on things he has a personal stake in and can observe, like the well-being of the Bay Area. He has a chief philanthropy officer. Salesforce develops tools that make charitable giving easier for companies and organizations. His intentions appear to be good.

But it’s also true that Benioff probably couldn’t have bought Time magazine, or built such a tall tower, if not for the exclusive capitalism that he hopes to rid the world of. This is the hard thing about being a billionaire who wants to do good: they only feel responsible for the beauty in the world so long as they still get to have lots and lots and lots of money. Benioff can donate tens of millions of dollars, marginally expanding the set of people who benefit from the status quo, without really losing any of his own wealth. And if anything, it raises his status even further.

But if “inclusive” and “capitalism” turn out to be incompatible, would he be willing to give it all up for the greater good?

#USA #capitalisme #action_charitable #affaires

​Mosaic turns 25: The beginning of the modern web | ZDNet
▻https://www.zdnet.com/article/mosaics-birthday-25-years-of-the-modern-web

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In the beginning, the web, or WEB as it was known then, was a mystery. Like gopher and archie, it was a character-based internet tool interface that only the proud, the few, and the early internet users knew about. Then, everything changed. First, the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) made it easy for anyone to get on the net, and then two graduate students, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, created the first popular web browser: Mosaic.

Mosaic’s first beta was released for Unix operating systems running X Window on January 23, 1993. It wasn’t the first graphical web browser. That honor goes to ViolaWWW, a Unix browser, although some argue the even more obscure Erwise should get the credit for being the first web browser. The early browser Cello takes the prize for being the first Windows graphical web browser. No matter who really gets the credit for being the very first web browser, no one can argue Mosaic was the first popular web browser.

#Mosaic #Histoire_numérique

#javascript No More
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases… mental power — Alfred North WhiteheadProgramming languages are for people — not computers. Computers don’t need any #programming #language other than machine code. Good programming languages help make problems easier for people to reason about. This is important because writing code is not just about solving problems. It’s also fundamentally about how you think, communicate, and comprehend.On the web today, we have one, dominant language: JavaScript. JavaScript was created because Marc Andreessen, “believed that HTML needed a ‘glue language’ that was easy to use by Web designers and part-time programmers to assemble components such as images and (...)

#javascript-no-more #frontend

#microsoft Edges closer to forcing users to use just one browser. Theirs.
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As a fledgling web developer back at the turn of the century, I worked at a major telecoms company in London. The machine I used in the year 2001 was an 800 Mhz Pentium, running Windows 95, and the browser war back then was between Internet Explorer, and Netscape Navigator. Even then the browser of choice for web developers, and many casual users, was Netscape. For me the reason was that the first web browser I had ever used was X-Mosaic on a Sun SPARCstation, and given that Marc Andreessen had then moved on from Mosaic to Netscape, I had a certain degree of customer loyalty. More importantly, Netscape just…worked better. For me, and for many others, Netscape beat IE into a distant second.However, Microsoft woke up to the fact that the Internet might just be an interesting technological (...)

#edge #browsers #tech #web-development

Silicon Valley exploits time and space to extend frontiers of capitalism | Evgeny Morozov | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/silicon-valley-exploits-space-evgeny-morozov

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The US Congress quietly passed an important piece of legislation this month. The Space Resource Exploration and Utilisation Act – yet to be signed by Barack Obama – grants American companies unconstrained rights to the mining of any resources – from water to gold. The era of space exploration is over; the era of space exploitation has begun!

While the 1967 Outer Space Treaty explicitly prohibits governments from claiming planets and other celestial resources, as their property, Congress reasoned that such restrictions do not apply to the materials found and mined there.

The bill’s timing might, at first, seem surprising – after all, Nasa, the US space agency, is almost constantly fighting against budget cuts – but is easily explained by the entrance of new space explorers on to the scene, namely the Silicon Valley billionaires who are pouring millions into “disrupting” space, Nasa, and the space programme of yore. From Google’s Eric Schmidt and Larry Page to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk, Silicon Valley’s elites have committed considerable resources to the cause.

And while the long-term plan – to mine asteroids for precious metals or water, which can then be used to fuel spaceships – might still be a decade or more away, Silicon Valley has a very different business proposition in mind. Space, for these companies, offers the most cost-effective way to wire the unconnected parts of the globe by beaming internet connectivity from balloons, drones and satellites.

Morph’s Outpost on the Digital Frontier
▻http://morphsoutpostonthedigitalfrontier.blogspot.de
On arrive de loin. A l’époque de la space shuttle les limites du cyber-espace étaient encore inconnues et illimitées.

Wired wrote briefly about Morph’s Outpost in the September/October 1993 issue, online at
▻http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/streetcred.html?pg=8

Morph’s Outpost - By Will Kreth

Don’t knock programmers. Contrary to popular belief, many of them do have lives and look nothing like the bespectacled, pasty-faced, Jolt-cola- slurping traitorous overweight hacker depicted in Jurassic Park (personally, I was thrilled when he got eaten in the Jeep). Some of them ride mountain bikes, kayak, play alto sax and read books by Peter Matheissen. Some of them were never interested in programming until HyperCard, while others have been working on PC’s since the birth of the Altair in the ’70s. Until recently, they’ve been stuck wading through various patently dull programming magazines for the information they needed to stay on the edge.

The rise of interactive multimedia has given birth to a new crop of programmers, and they’re starving for deep technical information about their current (albeit over-hyped) obsession. Now they have a new magazine dedicated to their cause. Morph’s Outpost on the Digital Frontier is the brainchild of Craig LaGrow, a founder of the popular Computer Language, and Editor-in-Chief Doug Millison. Augmenting the magazine’s seriously technical treatment of authoring environments and the like is a whimsical cartoon character named (what else?) Morph, who runs his Outpost on the boundary between cyberspace and the digital jungle. He’s the silicon- surfing Sherpa who’ll outfit you with the “intel” you need to make the right decisions on hardware, software, scripting tricks, and marketing your creations. Morph, who looks as if he just came out of a graffiti-artist’s spray-paint can, has assembled several notable names within the industry to contribute to the Outpost on a regular basis - like Rockley Miller (publisher and editor of Multimedia and Videodisc Monitor), Richard Doherty (editor of Envisioneering), Tony Bove (publisher and editor of the Macromedia User Journal and the Bove & Rhodes Inside Report), and Michael Moon (of the market research firm Gistics, Inc.). Do you know your XCMDs from CLUTs? Script-X from a 3:2 pull-down ratio for mastering a videodisc? Then Morph’s Outpost on the Digital Frontier is a must-read for all you seasoned media fanatics surfing the Digital Pipeline.

Digital Work CyberTrends
▻http://people.duke.edu/~mccann/q-work.htm
Un an après la catastrophe de la Challenger l’espace sans fin du monde digital se traduisait en job opportunities sans limites.

Work in Cyberspace
Rise of the Personal Virtual Workspace
Rise of the American Perestroika
The Demise of the Job
Rise of Entreployees
Rise of the Movable Job
Demise of the Department
Rise of the Project
Demise of the Hierarchy
Rise of Multimedia in Corporations
Big Business in Your Little PC
Rise of the Digital Wealthy
Devolution of Large Entities
Rise of the Individual
Rise of the Video Communications
Rise of Internet Collaboration
Rise of the Virtual Office
Rise of Soft Factories
Dematerialization of Manufacturing
Put Your Knowledge to Work
Rise of New Organizational Structures
Demise of the Branch
Rise of Document-centric Computing
Rise of Intranet
Rise of Knowledge Worker Hell
Rise of a New Life in the Web
Rise of Business Ecosystems
Death of Competition
Rise of New Industry Definitions
Rise of Intellectual Mobility
Rise of the Internet Job Engine
Rise of Coordination-Intensive Business
Rise of the Internetworked Business Structures
Rise of Global Networks
Rise of Globalization
Rise of the Underdeveloped
Rise of Free Agent, USA

InfluenceHR | The Shift From Wellness to Well-being : Empowering a Workforce with a Whole-employee Approach
▻http://influencehr.com/sessions/the-shift-from-wellness-to-well-being-empowering-a-workforce-with-a-who
Depuis on chasse du cerveau dans la silicon valley , alors il faut faire des efforts pour en attirer les meilleurs.

Speaker:
Dr. Michael M. Moon, CEO and Principal Analyst, ExcelHRate Research and Advisory Services
Workplace wellness is undergoing a transformation from a limited view of employee physical wellness to a more holistic view that also includes employees’ emotional, mental, and financial well-being — inside and outside the workplace. To really engage employees, employers need to provide the right balance of resources, programs, tools, and technology to enable employees to own and manage their well-being along with building a culture that supports these initiatives. The HR vendor community has a tremendous opportunity in helping employers to empower their employees to own their well-being through innovative technologies that deliver personalized learning, feedback, and targeted interventions.

Michael Jay Moon - Wikipedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jay_Moon#Awards_and_associations
C’est l’occasion pour les vieux hippies et les habitants de première heure de la vallée de silicone de vendre quelques conférences.

Moon was a contributing editor for Morph’s Outpost from 1993-1995, launching the magazine and writing a monthly column. A technical publication on emerging multimedia design technology, it was based on the design of ’60s underground newspapers. He was a blogger for Customer Engagement Agencies, DAM for Marketing and Engagement Marketspace. In 2000, he co-authored Firebrands: Building Brand Loyalty in the Internet Age with Doug Millison. The book is now available in 13 languages.

Closing the Digital Frontier - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/closing-the-digital-frontier/308131
Une chosequi ne change jamais dans le monde capitaliste est l’incertitude. Où trouver the next big thing (#TNBT), commen investir, comment survivre. Alors les spécialistes annoncent des vérités assez simples pour plaire aux décervelés de la finance.

The era of the Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology—that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral— suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media—and of the Web itself?

Michael Hirschorn July/August 2010 Issue

Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft : Which Will Fall First ?
▻http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/01/06/google-apple-facebook-amazon-microsoft-which-will-fall-first

Which company will fall first, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or Microsoft? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.

Answer by Terrence Yang, Angel investor, on Quora:

I own stock in Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, but if I had to pick which tech giant I think will fall first, I would pick Facebook.

That being said:

Zuckerberg’s latest moves include:
Keeping control of Facebook even after he donated almost all his Facebook stock to charity. Facebook shareholder suit alleges secret texts from Marc Andreessen to Mark Zuckerberg.
Being the only public company CEO to skip Trump’s tech summit. I bet most shareholders wanted him to attend.
Making his 2017 resolution “to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year. After a tumultuous last year, my hope for this challenge is to get out and talk to more people about how they’re living, working, and thinking about the future.” Mark Zuckerberg - Every year I take on a personal... Maybe he is sincere in trying to better understand America, given that Facebook, together with Google, account for almost all the online ad revenue. Google and Facebook are booming. Is the rest of the digital ad business sinking?
Zuckerberg said he is no longer an atheist and that religion is very important (hat tip Hunter Johnson). (Mark Zuckerberg says he’s no longer an atheist, believes ‘religion is very important’.)
All of these moves are more consistent with someone laying the groundwork for a possible run for political office someday than with someone singularly focused on growing the Facebook empire. What would Steve Jobs do?
People have speculated before about Zuckerberg’s aspirations to run for President. (Does Mark Zuckerberg Want To Run For President?)
I believe his actions are an investment risk factor. At the margin, his latest moves drove some investors to sell Facebook stock (raising its cost of capital) and possibly providing cheaper capital to the Facebook’s competitors (if investors sell Facebook and buy Snap, for example).
Facebook’s metrics are wrong, though others (Google?) may have the same issue. It’s not just Facebook: Digital advertisers say internet metrics are often wrong Facebook Says It Found More Miscalculated Metrics.
Robert Scoble says spatial computing will dominate, meaning you will be able to physically walk around in the real world and see virtual items placed on them. Scobleizer - Entrepreneur in Residence.
Scoble said he would ask Zuckerberg this: “How are you going to compete with a “mixed reality” release of the iPhone that’s coming in 11 months? I expect that iPhone will sell 60 million in first weekend…"
Scoble goes on to say: “That’s more VR sold than all others combined. In one weekend … If I were at Facebook I’d get the entire Oculus team to pivot. Toward mixed reality glasses. Why? Microsoft’s execs already told me they are betting 100% on mixed reality (with its Microsoft HoloLens product). The strategy at Microsoft is “Cloud + Hololens.” That’s it. The entirety of a $455 billion company is betting on mixed reality.” Apple Strategy 2017. Very important change to iPhone coming (hat tip to Leo Harsha).
Oculus headset sales are low. VR is taking longer to take off than some guessed. VR headset sales by device 2016 | Statista.
Instagram is doing a great job copying Snap’s popular features and avoiding the unpopular ones (fast follower). But they don’t have anything like Spectacles yet. Instagram’s Best Move in 2016? Copying Snapchat — The Motley Fool Snapchat vs. Instagram: Who’s Copying Whom Most?
Even Zuckerberg’s write-up and videos about Jarvis home AI reveals Facebook’s weaknesses. While Amazon, Google and Apple can combine hardware and software to give you a better, more seamless experience via Echo/Alexa or the Google and Apple equivalents. To date Facebook only has software.
Some others cite Microsoft or Apple as the most likely to fail. I disagree.

SILICON VALLEY (THE BIG FIVE) RULEZ

Tech Companies Are Dominating the Stock Market as Never Before (July 29 2016)
▻http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/29/the_world_s_5_most_valuable_companies_apple_google_microsoft_amazon_facebook.

Tech’s ‘Frightful 5’ Will Dominate Digital Life for Foreseeable Future ( JAN. 20, 2016)
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/technology/techs-frightful-5-will-dominate-digital-life-for-foreseeable-future.html?_r

The Big 5 are Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook
(August 2, 2016)
▻http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2016/8/2/the-big-5-are-apple-google-microsoft-amazon-facebook

The Big 5 Year in Review : Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook (December 29, 2015)
▻https://stratechery.com/2015/the-big-5-year-in-review-apple-google-microsoft-amazon-and-facebook

#silicon_valley #capitalisme #technologie #disruption

Colonialisme numérique

L’autorité indienne de régulation des télécommunications a interdit, le 8 février, la mise en place par la multinationale Facebook d’un service d’accès mobile à Internet gratuit, mais limité et conditionné (Free Basics). Cette décision a provoqué une réaction sur Twitter de M. Marc Andreessen, administrateur de Facebook.

Répondant à un autre utilisateur de Twitter, il a expliqué que l’interdiction s’inscrivait dans une histoire plus large de lutte contre les interventions économiques étrangères au détriment du développement national indien. « L’anticolonialisme a été une catastrophe économique pour le peuple indien depuis des décennies. Pourquoi arrêter maintenant ? », a-t-il écrit, décrivant la proscription du service Free Basics comme « la dernière en date d’une longue série de décisions économiquement suicidaires du gouvernement indien ». Le commentaire a instantanément soulevé une vague de fureur dans un pays qui a mené et remporté, en 1947, une longue bataille pour l’indépendance contre la domination coloniale britannique.

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▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/20979 via Le Monde diplomatique

« Le chapitre parisien de Techfugees réunit des entrepreneurs, des membres de la communauté tech et des acteurs de la société civile qui ont décidé d’agir ensemble pour répondre aux défis de l’intégration des réfugiés en France et dans le Monde. [...] La première étape, c’est l’organisation d’un Hackathon les 12 et 13 mars 2016 au Wagon avec une cinquantaine de co-créateurs issus des univers tech, associatif et entrepreneurial. »

« Pitch des porteurs de projet » ? « Intervention d’un expert du mode agile / entrepreneuriat » ? Je suis perplexe.

▻https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-hackathon-techfugees-paris-21446290432

#réfugiés #hackathon #startup #entrepreneuriat

Que recouvrent les “Civic Tech” ? - Medium
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Lawrence Grodeska (@grodeska), le fondateur de CivicMakers fait le point sur Medium sur la définition des “Civic Tech”, les technologies adaptées à la citoyenneté. Alors que le logiciel est en train de dévorer le monde, comme le proclame l’investisseur libéral Marc Andreessen, les relations citoyennes dans l’espace public entre les gens, les communautés, les villes, les gouvernements et les Etats, semblent résister aux avancées logicielles. Les Civic Tech sont un mouvement qui visent à revitaliser et transformer nos institutions sociales, explique-t-il, mais les définitions en proposent des interprétations assez différentes les unes des autres. Pour Techcrunch, les Civic Tech sont des technologies visant à permettre aux citoyens ou à les aider à “rendre le gouvernement plus accessible, efficient et (...)

#CivicTech #e-gov #politiques_publiques

Mark Zuckerberg on “Net Neutrality” ... and #Facebook's approach to it
▻https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102033678947881

Over the past week in India, there has been a lot written about ►http://www.internet.org and #net_neutrality. I’d like to share my position on these topics here for everyone to see.

Why the Tech Elite Is Getting Behind Universal Basic Income | VICE | United States
►http://www.vice.com/read/something-for-everyone-0000546-v22n1

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Le revenu universel intéresse autant le capital risque que la gauche post-marxiste... mais cet intérêt des cyberlibertariens pour le revenu universel devrait nous poser pas mal de questions...

The idea of basic income has been appearing among the tech-bro elite a lot lately. Mega-investor and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen recently told New York magazine that he considers it “a very interesting idea,” and Sam Altman of the boutique incubator Y Combinator calls its implementation an “obvious conclusion.” Albert Wenger, a New York–based venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, has been blogging about basic income since 2013. He’s worried about the clever apps his company is funding, which do things like teach languages and hail cars, displacing jobs with every download.

“We are at the beginning of the time where machines will do a lot of the things humans have traditionally done,” Wenger told me in October. “How do you avoid a massive bifurcation of society into those who have wealth and those who don’t?” He has proposed holding a basic-income experiment in the dystopian fantasyland of Detroit.

Singularity University is a kind of seminary in Silicon Valley where the metaphysical conviction that machines are, or soon will be, essentially superior to human beings is nourished among those involved in profiting from that eventuality. Last June, the institution’s co-founder and chairman, Peter Diamandis, a space-tourism executive, convened a gathering of fellow industry luminaries to discuss the conundrum of technology-driven unemployment.

“Tell me something that you think robots cannot do, and I will tell you a time frame in which they can actually do it,” a young Italian entrepreneur named Federico Pistono challenged me.

A basic income designed by venture capitalists in Silicon Valley is more likely to reinforce their power than to strengthen the poor. But a basic income arrived at through the vision and the struggle of those who need it most would help ensure that it meets their needs first. If we’re looking for a way through the robot apocalypse, we can do better than turn to the people who are causing it.

How Journalism Promotes The Internet’s Shadiest Scams
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The question of whether to host sponsored links from Taboola or Outbrain is a difficult one for publishers. As venture capitalist Marc Andreessen expresses in the above Twitter exchange, the “Content You May Like” widgets degrade the user experience and even other advertisers’ experience. He describes it as part of a “race to the bottom” of bad content chasing bad ads chasing bad content. Of course, even if it does long term damage to a journalistic outfit’s brand and readers’ trust, it’s difficult for publishers to say no to what feels like millions of dollars in free money during hard financial times.

#Taboola #Outbrain #publicité #presse

Cher Marc Andreessen - Alex Payne
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Le développeur Alex Payne (@al3x), qui travaille au “département pour une meilleure technologie”, une société qui développe des logiciels pour les administrations, signe une belle réponse à l’investisseur Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), qui dans un de ses derniers billets faisait une vibrante apologie néo-libérale de l’innovation technologique en s’en prenant à ceux qui pensent que les robots vont prendre leur travail et leur emploi. "Ce que le travail veut est de l’auto-détermination, pas un ralentissement de l’évolution technologique", lui répond Alex Payne. Les chauffeurs de taxis qui protestent contre Uber ne disent pas qu’ils ne veulent pas d’application dans leur voiture. Ils veulent pouvoir négocier les salaires et les conditions de travail plutôt que d’être seulement démoli [par la technologie]. (...)

#économie #capitalisme

Marc Andreessen sur la neutralité du net et la compétition · Storify
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Intéressante capture de Tweets entre le financeur Marc Andreessen et des discutants sur Tweeter, réagissant à l’accord Comcast/Netflix, ou celui-ci explique que la neutralité du net n’est pas une fin en soi, pire, qu’elle risque, si on l’a prend au pied de la lettre, de tuer toute innovation. Pour l’investisseur, la neutralité du net ne doit pas proposer de discrimination sur le type ou les contenus, mais seulement sur les volumes... Tags : internetactu2net fing internetactu #neutralitedunet