The document discusses the rise of mobile technology, cloud computing, and digital native generations. It addresses problems like increased surveillance potential and digital divides. However, it presents an optimistic vision of greater collaboration and openness if users take advantage of cloud computing to protect privacy and if "digital factories" are created that provide incentives for contributions and value-added work rather than just sharing. Overall the document weighs opportunities and challenges of new technologies for both individual freedom and productive cooperation.

1. Mobile, cloud
and the digital native generation
by François Elie
ADULLACT chairman, France
Lyon, FOSSA 2011

2. 1Presuppositions
2Definitions
3 Problems
4 Vision
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3. My presuppositions
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4. In digital area
To copy  to reproduce
Whe are leaving the platonic era
Copy are now identical to the original
We have to pay once to produce,
and how much to copy ?
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5. There is a war between
● Those who want to stay in the ancient world, in
rent-seeking economy
● Those who explore added value economy
models
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6. Floss experience :
laboratory of open models
● Open software
● Open standards
● Open data
'O
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7. The engine is always interest
but there are three communities
1. Collaborating
academic hackers
2. Sharing
companies consortiums
3. Mutualizing
customers coalitions
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8. Metastability
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9. At the end of the last century
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10. At the beginning ot the XXI° century
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11. Today and to morrow
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12. Definitions
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13. Mobile : time and space together
● Any time, anywhere
● In any occasion, with any tool
● Continuous connection
● Connected life
● Contiguous relations, ''small links''
● From ''time of available brain''
to ''lifetime available'' ?
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14. Cloud computing
An empty (marketing) concept ? It would be too easy...
Distributed applications, data and flows
Tools for « All, anywhere, all the time »
Mix of
● Load balancing
● Grid computing
● Distributed file systems
In the logic of the development of the internet ?
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15. Digital native generation ?
● They know without learning ?
What they know ?
● They don't imagine the world before (without)
Be careful ! They are afraid of nothing
● Seduction and mimetism
Innovation engine ?
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16. What do you call ''birth'' ?
or
?
Two digital native generations : fathers and sons...
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17. Problems
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18. Toward ''Surveillance society''
● Cloud could have three societal effects :
● It will be (or still is) an ideal tools for surveillance
society
● It accelerates and masks the change of bounds
between private and public world
● It will avoid the consciousness of the danger,
for user-addict
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19. Toward ''Open society''
● Cloud could have three other societal effects
● Il will be the ideal tools to dispose and increase an
extended true public area (open data, shared digital
creations)
● It could build an democratic and structurally
resistant network
● The social/local network oriented cloud will be an
tools to take conscience... of the danger of the
cloud
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20. Diseapearance of software ?
How many will still
knows they could
modify, study,
improve, and use
freely the free
software ?
floss software, proprietary software : same impact ?
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21. Reappearance of the software ?
Cloud computing
and usage engine :
the way anybody
could create
applications,
plugins, small tips,
at the good
granularity
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22. The two digital divides
Between fathers
● the one who uses
● and the one who does not
Between sons
● the one who produces digital object
● and the one who consumes only
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23. Learn all of them
The education is of a crucial importance
The digital native generation argument is an
excuse/raison to make nothing for the many
But we have to teach to all of them
● How to produce, and produre together
● How to share what they produce and why
Share what the others produce... they already know
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24. Economy of fonctionalities ?
Property (usus, fructus, abusus)
Pay for use
Cloud computing installs an obscurity
between
● cost of production
● and cost of products !
To avoid customers coalitions ?
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25. Vision
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26. Whow does it benefit ?
Supply or demand ?
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27. Do not reveal them
what they can make
Sleep, we work for you...
…in our interest
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28. Scenario 1
Companie(s) supplies all fonctionalities at the
prices they decide. Private and public customers
become again captive. End of match. The digital
revolution will not take place...
I have always thought that servitude of the regular,
quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described,
might be combined more easily than is commonly
believed with some of the outward forms of freedom;
and that it might even establish itself under the wing
of the sovereignty of the people.
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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29. Scenario 2
Private and public customers decide to take
advantage of cloud computing to protect their own
privacy. Companies become the gardeners of
private clouds
''You are undone if you once forget that
the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and
the earth itself to nobody''
JJ ROUSSEAU
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30. Convergence
between... server and browser
I have a dream
HTML 5 + Ajax + web server + browser +
ditributed filesystem (+ tor ?)
Back to the Internet 1.0 !
« Be browser and server
at the same time »
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31. And FLOSS ?
When a clever customer
meet
a clever maker
They have to meet
You say user is the most important in open source ?
Listen to customers (the users who pay)
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32. Too much unpaid work !
Collaborate to produce
and not only to share digital objects
(but to share also...)
From networking to net-working
From social networks and informal communities
to real production systems
The retribution of contributions is too indirect.
The distance between could increase or decrease
with the cloud.
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33. Sketchup (Google)
● An very good software
● A creation/production/share system
● A large universe of digital objects
● But still out of the real market
● Howto buy pizzas with my skills ?
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34. We have to invent digital factories
The cloud risk :
to mask the real production cost of all things
To avoid it : we need large ''in the market forges'' with solid
mecanism of retributions for contributions, reasons to invest,
metric for added value.
We have to encourage the digital native
to produce and not only to customs or share
But we have to invent an economy to retribute their work !
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35. Thanks a lot for attention !
Any question ?
francois@elie.org
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