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Feudalism and the “Algorithmic Economy”: Using AI and algorithms to return to feudal economic models
by Antonio Vetrò April 28, 2017

April 28, 2017

… a future which uses machines to determine how effective you can be and how little they can pay you in the process… "The Algorithmic Economy resembles feudalism complete with peasants who lack choices, and lords who decide who can become a lord, who remains a peasant, and defining the value of a peasant’s worth based on what the lord is willing to pay the peasant." https://medium.com/@ebonstorm/feudalism-and-the-algorithmic-economy-62d6c5d… <https://medium.com/@ebonstorm/feudalism-and-the-algorithmic-economy-62d6c5d…> Un caro saluto, Antonio

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Re: [nexa] Google: monopolio o no?
by Federico Morando April 27, 2017

April 27, 2017

Senza voler per questo dare ragione a Tim Worstall nel merito, il suo essere un lobbista neoliberista non inficia alcune delle critiche fatte all'articolo del NYT. In particolare, l'articolo del NYT sembra stabilire un nesso (non provato, se non inesistente) tra quota e potere di mercato. Inoltre, sul fatto che le dottrine antitrust sanzionino l'abuso di posizione dominante e non la posizione stessa, è difficile non essere d'accordo. Infine, ma qui la posizione è molto soggettiva, mi pare l'articolo del NYT proponga tre soluzioni in ordine decrescente di radicalità: smembramento, regolazione, depotenziamento del safe harbour. La terza risposta mi suona come quella più suscettibile di raccogliere consensi... Se la si accogliesse, bisognerebbe fare attenzione a non buttare il bambino con l'acqua sporca. Se, ad esempio, Google e Facebook potrebbero probabilmente ormai sopravvivere all'onere di un po' di monitoraggio attivo del rispetto del copyright online, non sono sicuro che player più piccoli non abbiano più bisogno di questo genere di porto franco. My two cents, Federico Il 24/apr/2017 10:51 AM, "Francesco Nachira" <francesco.nachira(a)skynet.be> ha scritto: E' interessante notare come le riflessioni dell'ottimo e documentato primo articolo citato abbiano colpito nel segno. Guarda caso, il giorno successivo appare un articolo (il secondo citato), scritto da *Tim Worstall * Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith_Institute> * e lobbista, che senza conoscenze specifiche dell'argomento, che su commissione scrive di tutto: dal global warming, alle energie rinnovabili, trade... cerca di smontare le argomentazioni del primo articolo. Su Forbes si descrive: " I have opinions about economics, finance and public policy" * The *Adam Smith Institute* (ASI) is a neoliberal (formerly libertarian) think tank and lobbying group based in the United Kingdom [da Wikipedia] Personalmente penso che il continente europeo sia in una condizione di totale dipendenza rispetto ai monopoli citati nel primo articolo. Elemento ancora più preoccupante è che si tratta di monopoli tecnologici di una potenza straniera, che raccolgono dati personali e grazie a questi sviluppano algoritmi e profili. Se l'Europa volesse riacquistare la sua sovranità tecnologica sarebbe necessario allocare sostanziosi investimenti (quindi solo a livello europeo) per lo sviluppo di una alternativa - open source - per ognuna di tutte le piattaforme citate. Si tratterebbe di una decisione politica in controtendenza rispetto alle politiche fatte fino ad ora, che ci hanno condotto a questa situazione. Qui gli articoli di un gruppo di lavoro ("investigate europe") che sta svolgendo una inchiesta specifica rispetto alla dipendenza di governi e amministrazioni pubbliche relativa a microsoft http://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/new-investigation- europes-dire-dependency-on-microsoft/ Francesco Nachira On 24/04/17 08:37, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: *NYT Opinion: "Is It Time to Break Up Google?"* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it- time-to-break-up-google.html *Forbes: "Google Isn't A Monopoly - So Don't Break It Up Or Regulate It Like One"* https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/23/google- isnt-a-monopoly-so-dont-break-it-up-or-regulate-it-like-one/#621603d56ad0 juan carlos _______________________________________________ nexa mailing listnexa@server-nexa.polito.ithttps://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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Fwd: IL FUTURO TRENTA ANNI FA, disponibile in libreria, domani 28 Aprile la presentazione a Roma
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 27, 2017

April 27, 2017

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: IL FUTURO TRENTA ANNI FA, disponibile in libreria, domani 28 Aprile la presentazione a Roma Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:04:06 +0200 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:44:43 +0200 From: Dott.ssa Laura Abba <Laura.Abba(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Reply-To: Forum per elaborare i temi di interesse della comunita' Internet italiana (a cura di Internet <FORUM(a)ISOC.IT> To: FORUM(a)ISOC.IT Domani la presentazione del libro al MAXXI di Roma durante i lavori del convegno #INTERNETDAY UOMINI ROBOT E TASSE, IL DILEMMA DIGITALE <http://www.agi.it/innovazione/2017/04/24/news/il_programma_dellinternet_day…>. In diretta dalle 9:00 sul sito di www.agi.it <http://www.agi.it>. Sono le storie che raccontano il coraggio e la visione di una generazione di italiani che aveva visto prima dove saremmo arrivati. Introduzione di *Angelo Raffaele Meo*. Voglio dire grazie a tutti/e per le testimonianze che siamo riusciti a raccogliere ed in particolare ai soci della Internet Society Italia <http://www.isoc.it/partecipa/elenco-soci/2017> che hanno contribuito attivamente a questo lavoro, primo far tutti Arturo DI Corinto. Brave/i tutti! E un big grazie alla casa madre <http://www.internetsociety.org> che ha finanziato il lavoro. I diritti d’autore saranno interamente devoluti per il supporto ed il finanziamento delle attività diInternet Society Italia <http://www.isoc.it>. La prima volta di un libro di Isoc Italia in assenza di *Giorgio Giunchi* (Quaderni dell’Internet Italiano <http://www.quadernionline.it>). Senza nulla voler togliere ad Arturo, che mi ha sopportata e supportata al meglio, Giorgio e’ mancato moltissimo. E lo abbiamo dedicato a lui. Laura *IL FUTURO 30 ANNI FA* *Quando Internet è arrivata in Italia. A cura di Laura Abba e Arturo Di Corinto* Il 30 aprile 1986 dal CNUCE di Pisa fu inviato un pacchetto IP di dati al centro di Telespazio, a qualche centinaio di km nella piana del Fucino, la cui antenna a sua volta lo trasmise via satellite a Roaring Creek, in Pennsylvania. Dagli USA rispose un computer. La prima connessione in Italia era stabilita. Un pugno di visionari, ingegneri, hacker, cantastorie, da allora non ha mai smesso di credere di poter creare nel cyberspazio una civiltà della mente. E di forgiare “un futuro più giusto e più ricco per l’intera umanità costruito sulla collaborazione e non sulla competizione, sulla conoscenza libera ed aperta e su quel formidabile strumento di diffusione” che Internet prometteva di essere. A quell’epoca i calcolatori occupavano intere stanze, la parola blog non esisteva, i social network dovevano ancora essere inventati, però esistevano le reti a cui quelli che fecero l’impresa appartenevano: reti di computer e reti di persone. Questa è la loro storia, la storia di trent’anni di Internet in Italia. _______________________________________________ Dott.ssa Laura Abba Technical Executive (Dirigente Tecnologo) CNR Italian National Research Council IIT Institute for Informatics and Telematics Via G. Moruzzi, 1- 56126 Pisa, (ITALY) phone: +39 050 3152633 mobile: +39 348 7981001 fax: +39 050 3152593 e-mail: laura.abba(a)cnr.it <mailto:laura.abba@cnr.it> skype:l.abba webpage: http://www.iit.cnr.it/laura.abba _______________________________________________ AVVISO: Questo messaggio ed i suoi eventuali allegati sono rivolti esclusivamente ai destinatari e possono contenere informazioni riservate. Qualsiasi utilizzo, diffusione o riproduzione senza autorizzazione è proibita. Qualora vi fosse pervenuto questo messaggio per errore, esso va cancellato immediatamente con preghiera di avvisare il mittente. Grazie.

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Panel SISP Digital Constitutionalism
by Mauro Santaniello April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017

Carissime/i, segnalo questa call: Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Political Science (SISP) Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo 14-16 September 2017 Panel 5.7 Digital Constitutionalism: rights protection and power limitation in the Internet Chairs: Claudia Padovani, Mauro Santaniello Call for Paper Deadline: Tuesday 30th May 2017 The debate over – and attempts to elaborate – a ‘constitution for the Internet’ have been developing in diverse contexts since the late 1990s. More recently, this issue has been addressed also by national parliaments all over the world, with relevant initiatives led in Brazil, the Philippines, Italy, New Zealand, Nigeria, European Union, amongst others. A need for innovative theoretical frameworks and research approaches to investigate these developments has emerged also in the light of new socio-technical trends, such as the rise of the Internet of Things, the building of Smart Cities, the exploitation of Big Data, the use of robots in patrolling and war, the deployment of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality in the security field. Furthermore, reconsideration of the political and juridical implications of human rights protection in the digital context is called for by developments that are putting at risk fundamental rights and freedoms around the world - such as growing number of terrorist attacks, political radicalization and new forms of populism - and by the institutional responses at political, legal and technical levels.This panel aims at exploring the issues, political processes and policy discourse, actors' strategies and networks involved in digital constitutionalism. The primary goal of the panel is to better understand digital constitutionalism as a political phenomenon, which is engendering a variety of efforts concerning the formalisation of digital communication rights and principles. Furthermore, the panel seeks to explore the relevance and impact of existing and emerging attempts to formalize digital communication rights, in view of the above socio-technical developments. The panel welcomes proposals that connect the study of the constitutionalization of digital communications with questions concerning democracy, power, human rights, political communication and global governance. Policy approaches are welcome, as well as legal and interdisciplinary perspectives. Paper proposals (abstract max 2500 characters) can be submitted exclusively through MySISP (http://www.sisp.it/login) Signing up for MySISP is free and does not entail SISP membership. ___ Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it Mob. +393345217528 Skype: internetpolicy twitter.com/webvoodoo

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Fwd: [xnet-news] Simona Levi and Xnet organize Master's Degree on Technopolitics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
by Fabio Pietrosanti - Hermes Center April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017

Molto interessante questo master organizzato da XNET a Barcellona. In Italia ci sono iniziative di questo tipo? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [xnet-news] Simona Levi and Xnet organize Master's Degree on Technopolitics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:26:31 +0200 From: Simona Levi Xnet <simona(a)xnet-x.net> To: xnet-news(a)listas.xnet-x.net Dear friends, Simona Levi and Xnet organize */MASTER'S DEGREE IN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, TECNOPOLITICS AND DIGITAL CULTURE/* at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. If you found it interesting, we very much apreciate if you help us to disseminate the info. *//* The idea is to train active agents to work with new models of strategic action, versatile actors who can bring into being new forms of organisation and initiatives, who are able to work with them and lead sectors that transform, and are in the process of being transformed. The Master’s Degree is to be offered in Barcelona in the coming academic year. It will be taught in Spanish and is more geared to action than to academic reflection and technological innovation. No prior technological knowledge is required, and its aim is precisely to help academic institutions, professionals and organisations to resituate themselves and adapt to present-day conditions. *//*The Master’s Degree in Civil Rights, Technopolitics and Digital Culture is designed for public administrators, researchers and academics in political science, the social sciences and the humanities, journalists, lawyers, political officeholders, entrepreneurs, economists, activists and managers in the third sector and in organisations undergoing transformation, as well as executive staff in organisations and institutions promoting programmes of participation, online networking, social responsibility and political influence. */ "MASTER'S DEGREE IN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, TECNOPOLITICS AND DIGITAL CULTURE"/* *WEBSITE:*http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/en/master-degree-social-rights-tecnopolitics-digital-culture Pre-enrolment is now open: http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/en/master-degree-social-righ… *PROGRAMME* *1. Democracy, Technopolitics and Action* * Network Democracy: initiative, technopolitics and governance* - Neuropolitics and Network Society - Collective intelligence, participation and organisation - New policy and false positives - Achievements and myths of e-democracy. - What's the Internet and how is it ruled - History of hacking *2. The future of civil rights in the digital age. Theory for the initiative.* - Brief history of fear and intolerance - Freedom of expression and right to information - Use and abuse of the right to honour - Patents and struggles for the control of health - Global files and global file sharing - Big Data - Open Access – Open Science - Privacy, security vs. mass internet surveillance *3. Economics: entrepreneurship and innovation from the perspective of commons and networks* - The economy of the commons - Blockchain and P2P financial structures - Citizen control of financial flows - Shared economy and its perversions - The future of work *4. New forms of Communication, Information and Journalism* - Journalism, power and manipulation - Big Data and data Sovereignty - Investigative journalism in the digital age - Leaks and whistleblowers - Social networks, impact and censorship *TOOLS* For the organisation and action, personal safety and data protection, information search and monitoring, data management and visualization, democratic participation. TEACHERS, EXPERTS AND CASES OF STUDY http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/sites/default/files/2017-cv-… (Spanish) Many thanks, simona Levi

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50° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 26 aprile 2017
by Francesco Ruggiero April 24, 2017

April 24, 2017

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 26 aprile 2017, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà il 50° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"The Online Tracking Horde".* Ospite dell'incontro *Stefano Traverso* (DET, Politecnico di Torino). Ingresso libero, webcast live all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: *https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50>* Cordiali saluti, Francesco 2017-04-18 15:24 GMT+02:00 Francesco Ruggiero <francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it> : > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50> > [image: NEXA] > > 50° Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 26 aprile 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-50 > The Online Tracking Horde > > Speaker > Stefano Traverso (DET, Politecnico di Torino) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > > During the visit to any website, the average internaut may face scripts > that upload personal information to so called online trackers, invisible > third party services that collect information about users and profile them. > This is no news, and many works in the past tried to measure the > extensiveness of this phenomenon. > All of them ran active measurement campaigns via crawlers. *We observe > the phenomenon from a passive angle, to naturally factor the diversity of > the Internet and of its users*. We analyze a large dataset of passively > collected traffic summaries to observe how pervasive online tracking is. We > see more than 400 tracking services being contacted by unaware users, of > which the top 100 are regularly reached by more than 50% of Internauts, > with top three that are practically impossible to escape. Worse, more than > 80% of users gets in touch the first tracker within 1 second after starting > navigating. And we see a lot of websites that hosts hundreds of tracking > services. Conversely, those popular web extensions that may improve > personal protection, e.g., Ghostery, are actually installed by a handful of > users (3.5%). > *We also present the first experimental campaign aimed at benchmarking > popular plug-ins for web privacy preservation to date*. We select 7 > different plug-ins and setup a testbed to automatically browse regular web > pages, while collecting navigation data. We analyze this data to compare > each plug- in, considering both privacy-protection and performance angles. > The resulting picture witnesses how pervasive web tracking is, and > describes the effectiveness of available countermeasures. > > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://lunch50.eventbrite.com > <http://lunch50.eventbrite.com> entro il 24 aprile.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [TRAVERSO]] > STEFANO TRAVERSO is a postdoctoral fellow in the Telecommunication > Networks Group of Politecnico di Torino. He received a PhD in electronic > and telecommunication engineering from the Politecnico di Torino. During > his PhD and Post-docs he has been visiting Telefonica I+D research center > (Barcelona, Spain), NEC Laboratories (Heidelberg, Germany) and Nokia Bell > Labs (Paris, France). His current research interests include Internet > measurements, design of privacy-preserving systems, and high-speed > networking. He is a co-founder of the startup Ermes (www.myermes.com) > official spin-off of Politecnico di Torino. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - Metwalley H., Traverso S., Mellia M., Miskovic S., Baldi M., *The > Online Tracking Horde: A View from Passive Measurements* > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-17172-2_8>. > - Metwalley H., Traverso S., Mellia M., *Unsupervised Detection of Web > Trackers* > <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7417499/?reload=true>. > - Englehardt S., Narayanan A., *Online Tracking: A 1-million-site > Measurement and Analysis* > <http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site_tracking_measu…> > . > > > > > Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e > “Nexa Lunch Seminar” > > Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino > (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca > indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla > società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. > > Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del > mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre > le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con > Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di > incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i > temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social > networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di > espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto > altro. > > Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i > direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico > di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo > staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i > “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. > > Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle > ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". > Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. > > See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious > about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed > in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise > noted. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono > disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events > Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this > newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription > preferences, please click here > <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. > > Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more > <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Google: monopolio o no?
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 24, 2017

April 24, 2017

*NYT Opinion: "Is It Time to Break Up Google?"** * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time-to-break-up-go… *Forbes: "Google Isn't A Monopoly - So Don't Break It Up Or Regulate It Like One"** * https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/04/23/google-isnt-a-monopoly-… juan carlos

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Canadian RTC on net neutrality
by avv. Monica A. Senor April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) strengthened its commitment to net neutrality by declaring that Internet service providers should treat data traffic equally to foster consumer choice, innovation and the free exchange of ideas. Segue qui... https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2017/04/c… Un caro saluto a tutti, Monica

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In secret court hearing, lawyer objected to FBI sifting through NSA data like it was Google
by GianlucaQuaglia April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

_IN HER FIRST APPEARANCE representing the American public before the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2015, Amy Jeffress argued that the FBI is violating the Fourth Amendment by giving agents “virtually unrestricted” access to data from one of the NSA’s largest surveillance programs, which includes an untold amount of communications involving innocent Americans. The NSA harvests data from major Internet companies like Facebook, Google and Apple without a warrant, because it is ostensibly “targeting” only foreigners. But the surveillance program sweeps up a large number of Americans’ communications as well. Then vast amounts of data from the program, including the Americans’ communications, are entered into a master database that a Justice Department lawyer at the 2015 hearing described as the “FBI’s ‘Google’ of its lawfully acquired information.” [...]_ continua qui https://theintercept.com/2017/04/21/in-secret-court-hearing-lawyer-objected…

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Atlantic: "Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 22, 2017

April 22, 2017

*Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria** * /“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”/ JAMES SOMERS APR 20, 2017 You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe—would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one. At the terminal you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You’d be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you’d be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable—as alive in the digital world—as web pages. It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said. “It was possible to think in the Renaissance that you might be able to amass the whole of published knowledge in a single room or a single institution.” In the spring of 2011, it seemed we’d amassed it in a terminal small enough to fit on a desk. […] Continua qui: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-googl…

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