"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" ~George W. Bush
"Why the future doesn't need us" by Bill Joy: "Our most powerful 21st-century technologies -- robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech -- are threatening to make humans an endangered species."; Wired magazinefull article; April 2000
"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human." ~John Naisbitt
The Decline of Wikipediathe sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10. It is not operated by a sophisticated corporation but by a leaderless collection of volunteers who generally work under pseudonyms and habitually bicker with each other; 10/22/2013
Anonymousloosely associated international network of activists and hacktivists; well-known for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites
Net neutrality, Net neutrality in USprinciple that ISPs and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication
Bandwidth caplimits the transfer of a specified amount of data over a period of time. Internet service providers commonly apply a cap when a channel intended to be shared by many users becomes overloaded, or may be overloaded, by a few users. Implementation of a bandwidth cap is sometimes termed a Fair Access Policy, Fair Usage Policy or Usage-based billing; contrast with "bandwidth gap" (aka digital divide)
issues recognized earlier; regulation by FCC, legislation formalized to address; Net Neutrality Primer
for example: your ISP blocking/slowing competitor's video streaming or VOIP(phone) service
Proponents: consumer advocates, human rights organizations, online companies and some technology companies Arguments for: Control of data; Digital rights and freedoms; Competition and innovation; Preserving Internet standards; Preventing pseudo-services; End-to-end principle
Opponents: hardware companies and members of the cable and telecommunications industries; anti-regulatory organizations Arguments against: Privacy concerns; Innovation and investment; User welfare; Counterweight to server-side non-neutrality; Bandwidth availability; Opposition to legislation
Whither Net Neutrality?new FCC chairman appears to waffle on a key component of an open Internet: high-priced express lanes on the information superhighway might be OK; 12/23/2013
"transparency: fixed and mobile broadband providers must disclose the network management practices, performance characteristics, and commercial terms of their broadband services.
no blocking: fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services.
no unreasonable discrimination: fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic."
2006: Twitter: social networking and microbloggingservice that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters
"Wikileaks' silencing was sought by antidemocratic governments worldwide -- including China, whose censors work mightily to block all access to the site. Wikileaks' plug was pulled, ironically, not in China, but by a federal judge in San Francisco." ~Peter Scheer
WikiLeakspublishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources
"There?s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance...It doesn?t appeal to business customers, because it doesn?t have a keyboard" ~Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
Understanding crowdfunding's caveats: part 1, part 23/2/2014
Bitcoin: digital currency, micropayment; -- or, commodity; collectible; Ponzi scheme; political ideology? unknown individual, or group, known as 'Satoshi Nakamoto', bitcoins exist only in digital form and can be bought with traditional money through the Internet. New bitcoins are ?mined? by programmers solving complex math problems
The Face Behind BitcoinSatoshi Nakamoto, reclusive inventor of the troubled virtual currency, hiding in plain sight? 3/6/2014
The Decades That Invented the Future: Part 11: 2000siPhone; Human Genome; Instagram; Rise of the Drones; Hadoop (search server software); Connected Cars; Sep. 11th; Nintendo Wii; Apple (design); Doping (sports); Facebook; Social Media; 2/1/2013
