science, democracy & technology: being linnaean in the digital age
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Science, democracy & technology: Being Linnaean in the digital age
Mathias Klang @klang67
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Peter “Fearless” Forsskål (1732-1763)Forsskaolea tenacissima
"looking like a tough character that does not want or need a caress"
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Access to “Truth” (knowledge)
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Thoughts on civil liberty (1759)
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
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Truth always wins when it is allowed to be denied and defended equally (§8)
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Civil liberty is the unlimited freedom of the written word (7§)
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People oppress each other (5§)
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Censor librorum: Niklas
von Oelreich
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Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
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A ridiculously brief history of computing
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Generation zero
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hollerith
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World wide web (an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)
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The digital is the original & everything is copy
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Interfaces of knowledge
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Blog
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999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
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Only 30 kg
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Limitless 303 grams
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“all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” Pangloss in Candide (1759)
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Infrastructures of control
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To this liberty, the greatest danger is always posed by those who are the most powerful in the country by dint of their positions, estate, or wealth. Not only can they easily abuse the power they hold, but also constantly increase their rights and strength, so that the other inhabitants must fear them more and more. (4§)
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Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
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Formats, (false) metaphors and drm
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Ephemeral knowledge
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Lenses to the world
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Surveillance as hidden cost
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To ensure digital civil liberty politicians must be fearless, weigh people above commerce & speech above infrastructure
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THANKS!
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Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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