On 09/04/13 netbehaviour <netbehavi...@furtherfield.org> wrote: >Captives of the Cloud: Part I. > >By Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk > >We are the voluntary prisoners of the cloud; we are being watched over >by governments we did not elect. > >Wael Ghonim, Google’s Egyptian executive, said: “If you want to >liberate a society just give them the internet.”1 But how does one >liberate a society that already has the internet? In a society >permanently connected through pervasive broadband networks, the shared >internet is, bit by bit and piece by piece, overshadowed by the >“cloud.” > >http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/
Well worth reading, both parts, and accessible language. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
