This document discusses six questions around human-centric research on the next generation internet (NGI) in under 12 minutes: 1. It defines the internet as an enabling technology like electricity that is profoundly shaping the digital socio-economic ecology. 2. It discusses how internet code influences decisions but that the internet is not amoral and we must instill human values into its code. 3. It raises questions around what constitutes a person and who owns data, AI, and private property in the digital age. 4. It briefly touches on issues like data consent, the legal frameworks around internet law, and challenges around discerning true from fake information online. 5. It concludes by introducing the

1. HUMAN-CENTRIC
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
NGI
Prof. Chris Marsden, Sussex, Reykjavik 13/6/2018

2. 6 Questions in 12 Minutes
1. What is the Internet?
2. What is human?
3. What is a person (and who owns them)?
4. What is legal?
5. What is true and fake?
6. What is interdisciplinary research?

3. What is the Internet?
 And why is it becoming so important?
 Enabling technology – like electricity
 So not like a railway or a steam engine or a book
 but an even more profound driver of the digital
socio-economic ecology

9. What is human?
 Pipes and access layers
 Internet of Things
 Big Data
 Non-personal data
 More to the Internet than the “social Web”…
 much of it very boring to non-techies

11. Internet code influences decisions
 But it is not a machine we cannot influence
 Joel Reidenberg described ‘lex informatica’
 That was not an amoral neoliberal analysis
 He argued that we needed to instill human
values into the code
 He argues that still

15. What is a person
(and who owns them)?
 Or a corporation
 Or private property
 Or Artificial Intelligence

19. Data Age of Consent

20. Mechanical Turk

21. What is legal?
 Where do we place Internet law?
 Human rights
 Competition law
 Data protection
 Contract law
 Transnational law

27. What is true and fake?

28. Regulating Techbros…?

33. Blockchains to ruin the world?

34. What is interdisciplinary research?

39. Current work….