Slides for Digital Futures Colloquium presentation

1. You are
in control.
@TIMKLAPDOR

2. APreface

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

4. The most important
component of a network is
the node.

5. The best networks have
the best nodes.

6. The best nodes are
empowered individuals.

7. Empowered individuals
have ownership and
autonomy.

8. ... but

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

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

11. #1
Data Sovereignty
& Personal Identity

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

13. The
Social Graph
Social Network Diagram by DarwinPeacock, Maklaan

14. Who has their own domain
name, their own website?

15. We put our
stuff into
other peoples
containers.
https://flic.kr/p/aBiyQE

16. The Right to be Forgotten
https://flic.kr/p/8jJpbY

17. What would happen if
Facebook worked like
Blackboard?

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

19. What goes into the LMS
stays there.
... and then gets deleted.

20. #2
Algorithms &
Known Unknowns

21. http://bit.ly/1DIDEda
The News Feed

22. Automation ==Algorithm

23. https://flic.kr/p/49U5d
Digital Shadowland

24. #3
Enclosure &
the Rise of the
Vectoralists

25. End of the commons.
Land is fenced & becomes
property.

26. Digital Enclosure:
Acquisition
of data via
Startups
https://flic.kr/p/oNVWTq

27. Digital Enclosure:
Binary Choice
https://flic.kr/p/pUhUUL

28. Digital Enclosure:
Free to join,
pay with data
https://flic.kr/p/faq2B4

29. Digital Enclosure:
Licencing
Terms
https://flic.kr/p/72V3Hg

30. Digital Enclosure:
Removing the
Commons
https://flic.kr/p/fsJP48

31. McKenzie Wark

32. The Vectoralist Class

33. 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

34. The End?
No.

35. The Hacker Class

36. Developing the
Empowered Node

37. Nodeware
software + hardware

38. Distributed.
Co-operative.
Autonomous.
Connected.

39. Create new vectors.
Create new commons.

40. 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)