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"The web is dead" – flows of data are not open docs loosely joined. Most data is moving through proprietary devices and formats. Our concept of the Internet is flawed/primitive. We have never been comfortable with the concepts of radical openness. Internet described in terms of place based metaphors "cyberspace" "Internet superhighway." Mobile devices changed that.
Apple sells boxes. Microsoft sells software. Amazon a retailer, largest source of revenue is AWS. Facebook sells connectivity to people. Google sells connectivity to information. Compete for labor, political power, advertising revenue, attention. Each has a plan to "win the game" – to become the operating system of our lives. Put things on our bodies, drive our cars, fully imbedded in our bodies. Data flows must be proprietary and controlled. Can not be open/standard.
Internet of Things – forget it. Seems helpful. The important thing is the monitor and managing of people. Us. Companies must have a lot of knowledge about us. Difficult to enter the market – these companies have 18 years of data on us.
Edward Snowden showed us the data the government is collecting, and the purposes they have for the data. State actors are not benign, and often result in violence. Chinese government in full association with its social media companies. All states are excited by Modi, Putin, Erdogan, and the work they are doing on surveillance. Surveillance will increase.
We have voices as citizens. The Googlization of Everything.