Grazie Alberto per la segnalazione. Si parva licet, l'apertura del bell'articolo di Naughton mi ha ricordato di un'analisi che avevo fatto l'anno scorso tra la "rivoluzione dei rapporti di potere" apportata dall'invenzione della stampa, quella causata dalla rivoluzione industriale, e quella dell'informatica. http://www.broadband4europe.com/informatics-third-power-revolution-consequen... Ciao, Enrico Il 20/01/2019 09:25, Alberto Cammozzo ha scritto:
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Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the author 10 key questions
We’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. And the problem with living through a revolution is that it’s impossible to take the long view of what’s happening. Hindsight is the only exact science in this business, and in that long run we’re all dead. Printing shaped and transformed societies over the next four centuries, but nobody in Mainz (Gutenberg’s home town) in, say, 1495 could have known that his technology would (among other things): fuel the Reformation and undermine the authority of the mighty Catholic church; enable the rise of what we now recognise as modern science; create unheard-of professions and industries; change the shape of our brains; and even recalibrate our conceptions of childhood. And yet printing did all this and more. [...]
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