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A Preface

Networks are the key to learning & life – now and into the future.

The most important component of a network is the node.

The best networks have the best nodes.

The best nodes are empowered individuals.

Empowered individuals have ownership and autonomy.

... but

Current systems, technologies and models don’t allow that to occur.

Flash Points: 1. Data Sovereignty & Personal Identity 2. Algorithms & Known Unknowns 3. Enclosure & the Rise of the Vectoralists

#1

Data Sovereignty & Personal Identity

Who owns your data? How do they define your identity?

The Social Graph

Social Network Diagram by DarwinPeacock, Maklaan

Who has their own domain name, their own website?

We put our stuff into other peoples containers.

https://flic.kr/p/aBiyQE

The Right to be Forgotten

https://flic.kr/p/8jJpbY

What would happen if Facebook worked like Blackboard?

Every 15 weeks Facebook would delete all your photos and status updates and unfriend all your friends.

What goes into the LMS stays there.

... and then gets deleted.

#2

Algorithms & Known Unknowns

http://bit.ly/1DIDEda

The News Feed

Automation == Algorithm

https://flic.kr/p/49U5d

Digital Shadowland

#3

Enclosure & the Rise of the Vectoralists

End of the commons.

Land is fenced & becomes property.

Digital Enclosure: Acquisition of data via Startups

https://flic.kr/p/oNVWTq

Digital Enclosure: Binary Choice

https://flic.kr/p/pUhUUL

Digital Enclosure: Free to join, pay with data

https://flic.kr/p/faq2B4

Digital Enclosure: Licencing Terms

https://flic.kr/p/72V3Hg

Digital Enclosure: Removing the Commons

https://flic.kr/p/fsJP48

McKenzie Wark

The Vectoralist Class

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. –Tom Goodwin

The End? No.

The Hacker Class

Developing the Empowered Node

Nodewaresoftware + hardware

Distributed. Co-operative. Autonomous. Connected.

Create new vectors.

Create new commons.

Show NotesThe Social Graph (http://bit.ly/1KhcAih)‘Forgotten’ by Google (http://bit.ly/1DM8dPp)Consent and Ethics in Facebook’s Study (http://bit.ly/1MjwRby)Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/en/)Enclosure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure)A Hacker Manifesto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto)The Battle Is For The Customer Interface (http://tcrn.ch/1PkirI9)MYOS and the Networked Future (http://bit.ly/1TsEfBW)