As someone who has been involved for twenty years in trust and identity and security, I still was shocked after the Snowden Revelations.
My fears today are the companies, the twenty-six persons who have the 48% of the capital of the world. And as the Internet reflects the world, we have the same in the Internet.
A lot of these things were predicted, and we were told about them—we were warned about them. Things like loss of privacy and malevolence on the Internet and malware. We were warned, and a lot of us um, put on our rose-colored glasses and said oh well, let’s go chasing waterfalls anyway.
I really hope that the Internet can continue to have connectivity without bifurcation. That we don’t have little Internets everywhere.
It’s always true that it’s easier to break things than to make them secure. So, as long as we have just an arms race, the bad guys will keep winning.
My hope is that the Internet continues to develop based on its underlying culture, which is an open technology that is accessible to everyone.
What would it mean to have people who weren’t just academics in an environment true to the highest ideals of academia? Of solving problems, of examining questions and our own assumptions about answers to those questions?
Full Surrogacy Now means two dialectically opposed things. It is simultaneously a utopian cry for the queer gestational commune, and a description of what’s going on right now, which is very much not that. The dystopian structure of planetary reality in the present. Indentured service, subalternity, crowdfunding, outsourcing, neofeudalism, civil strifes, invisiblized sub-sub-contracting, and above all—to use the phrase of Shellee Colen—reproductive stratification.
In a world of globally-dispersed supply chains, an energy transition in the United States has implications for the extraction, production, and distribution of resources and technology in places well beyond US borders.
The urgency of climate change and the rise of a grassroots legislative political environmental movement in the United States should change the way urban planners think and act on spatial change and social justice.
It's an honor for me to be here. It's an undeserved honor for me. But I am proud to be a tiny bit of this construction, this marvelous construction that the Internet is and keeps being. Read more →
I think it's deeply important that we add a working knowledge of business and business models to what it means to be web-literate. The sites that we use, there's big money behind them, and there's even bigger profit motives in front of them. We need to be able to think critically about where we build our communities, about what they're doing with our data, and about when—not if—they monetize us. Read more →
About 1988, I was running a regional development information system at the United Nations economic commission for Africa in Addis Ababa. It was based on exchange of information with nodes in virtually every African country, and it was to be based on satellites for the exchange of that information. Unfortunately the satellites weren't there. Read more →
Carl Malamud: Internet Talk Radio, flame of the Internet. This... Read more →
It was called Echo. And I always tell people that it was almost literally true that I… Like, I logged in, and four years later I looked up you know, just to find piles of bills lying around and stuff like that. Read more →