is democracy in danger?
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1989 by Tim Berners-Lee
“The Internet is the f i rst th ing that humanity has bui l t that humanity doesn't understand , the largest exper iment in anarchy that we have ever had.” Eric Schmidt
World Wide Web
INTERNET OF THINGS
WHAT’S COMING NOW?
Animate and inanimate objects on earth will be generating data.
4 Vs
VARIETY DIFFERENT
FORMS OF DATA
VERACITY UNCERTAINTY
OF DATA
VELOCITY ANALYSIS
OF STREAMING DATA
VOLUME SCALE OF DATA
HOW EXPOSED ARE WE TO INFORMATION?
INFORMATION IN A LIFETIME OF AN AVERAGE
PERSON IN THE XX CENTURY
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This is GREAT because…
trad
ition
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m MORE INFORMATION
but… is it REALLY true?
BETTER DECISONS
BETTER DEMOCRACY
INFORMATION ≈ DEMOCRACY
SEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Chris Anderson
We are leaving the age of information and entering the age of recommendation.
INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION
SEARCH DISCOVERY
CNN Money, ”The race to create a ´smart´ google”
“The web, they say, is leaving the era of search and entering one of discovery. What is the
difference? Search is what you do when you’re looking for something. Discovery is when
something wonderful that you did not know existed, or did not know how to ask for, finds you”.
SO… ALGORITHMS ARE DISCOVERING AND PERSONALIZING CONTENT FOR US!
BAD NEWS… we are living in our own bubble!
THE FILTER BUBBLE by El i Par iser
IMPORTANT
UNCOMFORTABLE
CHALLENGING
OTHER POINTS OF VIEW
RELEVANT
“A squire l dying in your back yard may be more re levant to your interests r ight n o w t h a n p e o p l e dying in Afr ica”
by Mark Zuckerberg
ECHO CHAMBER EFFECT ≈ POLARIZATION
•Digital Prison for our thinking•Liberal Paternalism (top - down)• “totalitariam regime with a rosy cover?”
•no transparency•no ethical constraints
THE SINGULARITY (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)
ELON MUSK BILL GATES
STEVE WOSNIAK STEPHEN HAWKING
…the most serious DANGER to society…
•Moore’s Law (18 months)•Big Data (12 months)•General Artificial Intelligence