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Eben Moglen (Professor @ColumbiaLaw) delivered a keynote at @republica.
Technology has harmed the ability to think. These harms hide in the dark. In his keynote, Professor Moglen illuminates them for us.
WATCH: "Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention"
pscp.tv/re_publica/1Zk…
Technology has harmed the ability to think. These harms hide in the dark. In his keynote, Professor Moglen illuminates them for us.
WATCH: "Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention"
pscp.tv/re_publica/1Zk…
"Gram for gram, that smart phone is denser with sensing than the spy satellite in orbit, and it's all aimed at you...We don't need a thing in orbit to take a picture of a golf ball on the ground. Everybody has a little camera, and they take a picture," says Eben Moglen.
Eben Moglen on free services:
"The neuron [i.e. the smart phone] creates a network whose purpose now is to acquire your behavior...and to offer you services...What is really amazing is the price at which they are delivered to you, which isn't zero. It's the price of who you are"
"The neuron [i.e. the smart phone] creates a network whose purpose now is to acquire your behavior...and to offer you services...What is really amazing is the price at which they are delivered to you, which isn't zero. It's the price of who you are"
Eben Moglen on the push model in the modern web:
"The computers that we use now push us very hard. Tens of thousands of times a day, they show an advertisement and measure a response."
"The computers that we use now push us very hard. Tens of thousands of times a day, they show an advertisement and measure a response."
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