In the past decade, we’ve seen the rise of powerful social networks of unprecedented scale, connecting millions or even billions of people who can now communicate almost instantaneously. But many of the promises that were made by the creators of the earliest social networking technologies have gone unfulfilled. We’ll take a look at some of the unexamined costs, both cultural and social, of the way the web has evolved.
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The Web We Lost | Berkman Center
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Dan Gillmor on Permission Taken | MediaBerkman
Once, personal technology and the Internet meant that we didn’t need permission to compute, communicate and innovate. Now, governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an online surveillance state. In many cases, however, we’re letting it happen, by trading freedom for convenience and (often the illusion of) security. In this talk, Dan Gillmor—a founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication—suggests steps we can take as individuals to be more secure and free, and to take back the permissions we’re losing.
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TummelVision 42: Doc Searls on consumers, capitalism, and a decade of cluetraining
The TummelVision gang visits with an old friend, Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Radio Berkman 140: Three Trends of 2009
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2009/12/21/radio-berkman-140-three-trends-of-2009/
David Weinberger attended Supernova 2009 in San Francisco, where some of the biggest names in tech, business, government, and academia came together to talk past, present, and future of networks. He chatted with a number of those thought-leaders, and came away with three major threads for 2009 which might help guide our thinking as we go into 2010:
The Broadband Initiative The Growth of Real Time Web The Web and the Obama Administration
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Gene Koo & Scott Seider on Video Games and Pro-Social Learning
Do video games cause aggressive tendencies and other negative behaviors? How can games create positive impacts on players and society? Could My.BarackObama.com really be considered “the most influential ‘video game’” in recent history? Gene Koo of the Berkman Center and Scott Seider of Boston University tackle a few of these fascinating questions.
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The “Internet” of the developing world: using GSM networks to secure information
Ashifi Gogo, a Schweitzer Fellow at Dartmouth College, discusses mobile communications in the developing world - system architectures that provide levels of security analogous to well-known standards for internet transactions, and innovations in use of mobile networks for public services.
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The Long Tail of Gadgets - How Open Source Hardware is Enabling Bottom Up Innovation in Electronics
Open source software has collapsed the cost of innovation in the digital world. Now open source hardware IP promises to do the same in the physical world of electronics. As an example of this emerging trend, Peter Semmelhack, founder and CEO of Bug Labs, demonstrates Bug Labs’ product BUG.
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Enterprise 2.0: How Organizations are Exploiting Web 2.0 Technologies and Philosophies
Prof. Andrew McAfee from the Harvard Business School gives examples of Enterprise 2.0, folding them into a simple model intended to communicate the different categories of benefits conferred.
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Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress
Lawrence Lessig speaks at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2008/04/07/lawrence-lessig-change-congress-podcast/
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