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/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
