This is w hy theaffirmation of I D E N T I TY is soessential, because it fixesmeaning autonomously vis-a-vis the abstract, instrumentallogic of n e t w o r k s

Not all politics takes place through themedia, and imagemaking still needs to relate toreal issues and real conflicts

Those who survive in thisworld become politicallysuccessful, for a w h i l e.

Their advertising and censorship policies are vague, and many content generators argue that videos are inconsistently and unjustly demonetized. With 400 hours of content uploaded every minute, Google admitted that they “don’t always get it right”.

900 decentralized apps or DApps

This is because, in short, the technology will facilitate the decentralization of the World Wide Web, thereby equalizing control and ownership back from the grasp of profit hungry corporations.

ccording to Brash, the “Bloomberg Way” embraced two distinct imaginaries: a corporate city, with the mayor as CEO and the city as a “unified corporate entity,” a brand; and the city as a “luxury product,” an elite, meritocratic realm.

Over the next decade, the $20 billion project — spanning seven blocks from 30th to 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues — will add 17 million square feet of commercial, residential, and civic space, much of it housed in signature architecture by the likes of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; and Bjarke Ingels Group.

This is the whole issue. This is everything that we're talking about. And how do you trust something that can pull these signals off of you? If a system is asymmetric—if you know more about me than I know about myself, we usually have a name for that in law.

Right, exactly! Coca-Cola versus Pepsi: Coca-Cola knows this about me and shows me a commercial with a shirtless man; Pepsi doesn't know this about me because they are not using these sophisticated algorithms. They go with the normal commercials with the girl in the bikini. And naturally enough, I buy Coca-Cola, and I don't even know why. Next morning when I go to the supermarket I buy Coca-Cola, and I think this is my free choice. I chose Coke. But no, I was hacked

So have we reached the point of no return? How do we avoid the point of no return if we haven't reached there? And what are the key decision points along the way?

Democracy will become a puppet show

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Take a piece of paper money from your wallet and stare at it. It’s a pieceof paper, noth-ing more.

First, mass production required employeesand consumers. People mattered. Second, the era was shaped by thegradual development of legislative, legal, and social institutions toamplify capitalism’s pro-social dynamics and tame its excesses. This iswhat Karl Polanyi called the double movement

When we look to the digital future there is one anxiety from which allothers derive: What kind of home will it be?

. A world where production outpaces consumption should not be sustainable; that’s a lesson from Economics 101.

What a shock, then, to witness the near-instantaneous rise of 50 million blogs, with a new one appearing every two seconds. There – another new blog! One more person doing what AOL and ABC – and almost everyone else – expected only AOL and ABC to be doing

This view is spookily godlike. You can switch your gaze of a spot in the world from map to satellite to 3-D just by clicking. Recall the past? It’s there. Or listen to the daily complaints and travails of almost anyone who blogs (and doesn’t everyone?). I doubt angels have a better view of humanity.

Three months later, Netscape’s public offering took off, and in a blink a world of DIY possibilities was born. Suddenly it became clear that ordinary people could create material anyone with a connection could view.

“I happen to know that the address abc.com has not been registered. Go down to your basement, find your most technical computer guy, and have him register abc.com immediately. Don’t even think about it. It will be a good thing to do.” They thanked me vacantly. I checked a week later. The domain was still unregistered.

Not only did we fail to imagine what the Web would become, we still don’t see it today! We are blind to the miracle it has blossomed into. And as a result of ignoring what the Web really is, we are likely to miss what it will grow into over the next 10 years.

many, many ways to run the world, run your company ... If you don’t like it,don’t participate.You’re here as a volunteer; we didn’t force you to come.

The search engine doesn’t “search” the entire World Wide Web inresponse to your question. That couldn’t possibly work quickly enough—itwould take more than a tenth of a second just for bits to move around theearth at the speed of light. Instead, the search engine has alreadybuilt up anindex of web sites. The search engine does the best it can to find an answerto your query using its index, and then sends its answer right back to you

se Google in China, and your searches will “find” very different informationabout democracy than they will “find” if you use Google in the United States.Search for “401(K)” on John Hancock’s web site, and Fidelity’s 401(K) planswill seem not to exist.

They might know where to look because someone sent them the URL (the“Uniform Resource Locator”

Search is awondrous, transformative technology, which both fulfills dreams and shapeshuman knowledge. The search tools that help us find needles in the digitalhaystack have become the lenses through which we view the digital land-scape.

Buttherearelimitstowhatacomputercandoincertainsituations

Peoplesometimessaythatacomputerislikeabrain.Itisn't.Ifyoutakea pieceoutofabrain,thebrainwill reroutepathwaystocompensate.

Many programmersthinktypingisboringandtedious,sotheytrytodoaslittleofitaspossible.Insteadofretyping,orcopyingandpasting,theline.I'mgoingtowritealooptoinstructthecomputertorepeattheinstructiontentimes

Cgot itsnamebecauseitisthelanguage thattheBellLabscrewinventedaftertheywrotealanguagecalled"B."C+-i-,astill-popularlanguage,anditscousinC#arebothdescendantsofC

The digital explosion is creating both opportunities andrisks.

A remark made long ago can come back to haunt apolitical candidate, and a letter jotted quickly can be a key discovery for a

Data leaks. Credit card records are supposed to stay locked up in a datawarehouse, but escape into the hands of identity thieves. And we sometimesgive information away just because we get something back for doing so.

The world changed very suddenly. Almost everything is stored in a computersomewhere.

New technologies interacted in an odd way with evolving standards of pri-vacy, telecommunications, and criminal law. The explosive combinationalmost cost Tanya Rider her life.