Mobile, cloud and the digital native generation

by François ElieADULLACT chairman, France

Lyon, FOSSA 2011

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Presuppositions

Definitions

Problems

Vision

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My presuppositions

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In digital area

To copy to reproduce

Whe are leaving the platonic era

Copy are now identical to the original

We have to pay once to produce, and how much to copy ?

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There is a war between

● Those who want to stay in the ancient world, in rent-seeking economy

● Those who explore added value economy models

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Floss experience : laboratory of open models

● Open software● Open standards● Open data

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The engine is always interestbut there are three communities

1. Collaboratingacademic hackers

2. Sharing companies consortiums

3. Mutualizing customers coalitions

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Metastability

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At the end of the last century

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At the beginning ot the XXI° century

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Today and to morrow

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Definitions

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Mobile : time and space together

● Any time, anywhere● In any occasion, with any tool● Continuous connection● Connected life● Contiguous relations, ''small links''● From ''time of available brain''

to ''lifetime available'' ?

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Cloud computing

An empty (marketing) concept ? It would be too easy...

Distributed applications, data and flowsTools for « All, anywhere, all the time »

Mix of● Load balancing● Grid computing● Distributed file systems

In the logic of the development of the internet ?

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Digital native generation ?

● They know without learning ? What they know ?

● They don't imagine the world before (without)Be careful ! They are afraid of nothing

● Seduction and mimetismInnovation engine ?

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What do you call ''birth'' ?

or

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Two digital native generations : fathers and sons...

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Problems

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Toward ''Surveillance society''

● Cloud could have three societal effects :

● It will be (or still is) an ideal tools for surveillance society

● It accelerates and masks the change of bounds between private and public world

● It will avoid the consciousness of the danger, for user-addict

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Toward ''Open society''

● Cloud could have three other societal effects● Il will be the ideal tools to dispose and increase an

extended true public area (open data, shared digital creations)

● It could build an democratic and structurally resistant network

● The social/local network oriented cloud will be an tools to take conscience... of the danger of the cloud

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Diseapearance of software ?

How many will still knows they could modify, study, improve, and use freely the free software ?

floss software, proprietary software : same impact ?

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Reappearance of the software ?

Cloud computing and usage engine : the way anybody could create applications, plugins, small tips, at the good granularity

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The two digital divides

Between fathers● the one who uses● and the one who does not

Between sons● the one who produces digital object ● and the one who consumes only

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Learn all of them

The education is of a crucial importance

The digital native generation argument is an excuse/raison to make nothing for the many

But we have to teach to all of them● How to produce, and produre together● How to share what they produce and why

Share what the others produce... they already know

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Economy of fonctionalities ?

Property (usus, fructus, abusus)

Pay for use

Cloud computing installs an obscurity between ● cost of production ● and cost of products !

To avoid customers coalitions ?

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Vision

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Whow does it benefit ?

Supply or demand ?

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Do not reveal them what they can make

Sleep, we work for you...

…in our interest

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Scenario 1

Companie(s) supplies all fonctionalities at the prices they decide. Private and public customers become again captive. End of match. The digital revolution will not take place...

I have always thought that servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described, might be combined more easily than is commonly believed with some of the outward forms of freedom; and that it might even establish itself under the wing of the sovereignty of the people.

Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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Scenario 2

Private and public customers decide to take advantage of cloud computing to protect their own privacy. Companies become the gardeners of private clouds

''You are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody''

JJ ROUSSEAU

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Convergence between... server and browser

I have a dream

HTML 5 + Ajax + web server + browser + ditributed filesystem (+ tor ?)

Back to the Internet 1.0 !

« Be browser and server at the same time »

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And FLOSS ?

When a clever customermeet

a clever maker

They have to meet

You say user is the most important in open source ?

Listen to customers (the users who pay)

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Too much unpaid work !Collaborate to produce and not only to share digital objects (but to share also...)

From networking to net-workingFrom social networks and informal communitiesto real production systems

The retribution of contributions is too indirect.The distance between could increase or decrease with the cloud.

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Sketchup (Google)

● An very good software● A creation/production/share system● A large universe of digital objects● But still out of the real market

● Howto buy pizzas with my skills ?

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We have to invent digital factories The cloud risk : to mask the real production cost of all things

To avoid it : we need large ''in the market forges'' with solid mecanism of retributions for contributions, reasons to invest, metric for added value.

We have to encourage the digital native to produce and not only to customs or share

But we have to invent an economy to retribute their work !

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Thanks a lot for attention !Any question ?

francois@elie.org