Digital natives: freedom and hackability in a mobile future

PAST & FUTURE OF DIGITAL NATIVES: HACK THE FUTURE! Tristan NitotPrincipal Mozilla Evangelist, Mozilla Europe Founder tnitot@mozilla.com - twitter: @nitot

MOZILLA IS... a global community of people who believe thatopenness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.

We’re known for theFirefox Web browser

MOZILLA MANIFESTO (EXCERPTS)• The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.• Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.• The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.• Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.

I’M A DIGITAL NATIVE (AN OLD ONE)

ACORN ATOM - Source: Wikipedia TRS Model 80 - Source: Wikipedia SHARP PC-1500 - Source: Wikipedia I LEARNED TO HACK ON THESE USINGBASIC, ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE & A SOLDERING IRON

THE MOST HACKABLE MACHINE I OWNED• BASIC programming• Disassembler• extensible with 7 extension slots• extensive documentation Source: Wikipedia• Electric schema included Tinkering with the• Screwdriver Apple ][ was not needed to open the case encouraged

PHYSICAL COMMUNITIES ENCOURAGEDLEARNING, TINKERING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING• Physical spaces to: • Share knowledge • Share computers• Such as: • Micro-computer clubs • Centre Mondial de l’Informatique => Source: INA • Palais de la découverte

NETWORKS ENABLED VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES• Minitel in France• AOL,Compuserve & other large proprietary networks• Smaller BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) were operated from personal computers.

LARGE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ENABLELARGE SCALE COLLABORATION GNU/Linux:powers more than90% of todays 500 fastest supercomputers Wikipedia: 23 million articles 285 languages365 million readers

THEN CAME THE WEB• Simple principles: URL, • No need to buy a SDK: HTTP, HTML your text editor is enough• Open Standards • No need to ask for permission to participate• «View Source» to learn from existing pages The Web belongs to no-one. It’s an open, public resource

SOMETHINGOCCURRED TO ME DURING THIS DIGITAL JOURNEY...

WHO WRITES THE CODE DECIDESWHAT THE USER CAN DO• Developershave a lot of power over what users can do• Without source code, • youcan’t change the software • You don’t have the power to do what you want

FREE SOFTWARE HASNOTHING TO DO WITH PRICE. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE USER’S FREEDOM

IN 2011, TABLETS ANDSMARTPHONES COMBINED OUTSOLD THE PC

MOBILE INDUSTRY IS DOMINATED BYPROPRIETARY MOBILE PLATFORMS

MOBILE CENSORSHIP Someone decides for me what I can or cannot run on the device I paid for

NEW MOBILE RULES LIMITPARTICIPATION Want to develop an APP?• Get the official SDK / sign for the developer program• Use the language and APIs of the platform• Use the AppStore / Marketplace to reach users

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?• Users are just consumers. They can’t get in the driver’s seat.• It’s a lot harder to understand the technology if you can’t see under the hood• The next generation of digital natives will discover computing with smartphones and tablets.• They will be taught to be passive consumers

FROM TOTALLY OPEN TO COMPLETELY CLOSED

WHAT CAN WE DO TO EMPOWER THE NEXT GENERATION OF DIGITAL NATIVES?

WE NEED• Educated users• An open platform for mobile

This is exactly what is working on

EDUCATE USERS: WEBMAKER.ORGEmpower users so that the Web is not Read-Only

BUILD AN OPEN MOBILE PLATFORM Firefox OS Complete, standaloneoperating system for theopen Web, built entirelyusing HTML5 & standard Web APIs

EVERYTHING IS A WEB PAGE!Variations around the Variations around Home screen the incoming call screen

FIREFOX OS: HOW AN OPEN WEB PHONECONNECTS HTML5 TO HARDWARE Existing Platforms Firefox OS } (smartphones only) Web Browser/ Platform Native API- Web-based User Experience/Web based UI Content Significantly Web Engine/ smaller stack: APIs Standard Device APIs Scales from high-end Kernel feature phones (e.g. Android, iOS, Kernel Win7, etc.) to high-end smartphones Device (phone, tablet, Device desktop)

MARKETPLACE: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Content owners can use the Firefox Marketplace to enhance discoverability and make monetization easier. They can also sell directly (going through the marketplace is optional) FIREFOX MARKETPLACE

FIREFOX OS DEMO

AND NOW?

MOZILLA NEEDS YOUR HELP TO BUILD THE DIGITAL FUTURE WE WANT,NOT THE ONE THAT’S HANDED DOWN TO US

HOW TO HELP• Contribute to Mozilla: • http://www.mozilla.org/contribute• Build Mobile Web Apps: • https://marketplace.firefox.com/

THANK YOU @nitot

Digital natives: freedom and hackability in a mobile future

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