Glad to see Google getting it's due but I'm wondering if the deeper significance and risk posed by Google isn't being a wee bit overlooked here...
In a blogpost I did about a year ago, I was pointing to Google's victory in an anti-trust action which was being interpreted as a victory for "free speech"; and arguing that the more significant risk was likely to come from Google's impact on "Freedom of thought" as in "Google's algorithms have to be understood at the level of "epistemology" i.e. from the perspective of their role (in fact, intervention) in framing our underlying "knowledge, understanding, justified belief about the nature of the world"." http://tinyurl.com/aokqzsl Now that Google's halo is a wee bit dented some deeper reflection on what Google might, through its search algorithms, be doing to our underlying frameworks of knowledge--either inadvertently by structuring them in pursuit of its commercial goals or purposefully by, for example, following the direction of its friends in the US State Department--might be in order; and perhaps even more usefully some thought on what might be done about this. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Florian Cramer Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 9:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM] Re: <nettime> tensions within the bay area elites On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Hans de Zwart <[email protected]> wrote: > Just look at the graph displaying Google's DC lobbying investment and > you will instantly realise that Google is not the same Google that it > was a decade ago. To chime in here: If Facebook qualifies as "scary", then Google does even more so. Lately, the company has been aggressively ventured into military-industrial territory with its recent investments into robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and drone technology. <...> !DSPAM:2676,53718551308591646260386! # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
