By Andrew Keen
Yet another book about our vanishing privacy in the digital age, this book aims to document the loss and the reasons.
Love this quote from pg 4 by German Sociologist Georg Simmel, "" living in the city "grants the individual a kind and amount of personal freedom which has no analogy whatever under any other condition."" There"s alot to be said about getting lost in the crowd of the big city. It"s pretty much complete anonymity. But with today"s technology, being just a face in the crowd is getting to be.much more difficult.
Pg 7 Here author Keen is talking with Linkedin CEO Reid Hoffman about social networks and those who, like Warren and Brandeis wish to be ''let alone.'' There remain many, who are not ready for this digital Brave New World. @quixotic, Hoffmans" Twitter handle, counters brilliantly with Aristotle, ''that man is, by nature,
a social animal.'
I've seen the future and it is social says author Keen. Web 3.0 companies that will dominate the immidiate digital future will be social. All of the majpr players in the digital space are vying fpr position in the very lucrative social future.
Email is already out dated, i'll text you the reasons why.
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." Scott Mcneally Sun Microsystems.
A super node is someone witb alot of online connections/friends. In the future these people will be sought out for their abiloty to influence others.
Pg 62 "Wealth equals connectivity in the web 3.0 world."
Those days when we could just move away and reinvent ourselves may no longer be possible. The web has a long memory.
Can we really trust industry to respect our privacy? I think that would be a little naive to believe. I mean it's bogus and if we dont adopt some cool rules now, then we'll just be bogus too.
Poor Prince Albert, instead of his Crystal Palace leading to the clanking together of crystal goblets in a celebration of internationlal brotherhood, it lead to Kristallnact. Technology, however seductive, will never unite us.
148 Here we hear about the Oxford Mal, the former prison turned into a luxury hotel. The peepholes have been reversed to allow us to see out at all times but not view our neighbors. This is the metaphor for this book and for us in this digital age. Im reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets some to reverse their peepholes so everyone can see in at all times, hilarity ensues. The video is on Youtube.
162 So who will protect our privacy online. In a sort of e-G8, a summit was held.to discuss these very questions. The big-wigs of Web 3.0, i.e. Zuckerberg and Schmidt say no to government regulation. That position does not surprise me at all. They have had it theie own way for a long time now and the smug attitude that no one could.possibly grasp whats going on digitally but them is really starting to get old.
Do i want "hands-off" my internet from government? Yes, mostly, but unrestrained entrepreneurism is never a good thing.
168 We have lived through Big Coal, Big Oil, Big Food and Big Pharma and now we are heading for the world of Big Data. This will be the next oppressor of the poor and plaything of the rich.
173 At last we ask the question. "how many complex relationships can one person maintain?" anyway. Is it ten, 50, or ten thousand?
175 this number, dubbed Dunbar's number is 150. That is how many we can manage. So if you have 5000 friends on facebook 4850 of them are not your friends.
Good book, covrered the sudject well. No fire though just smoke.
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