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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Alexander Kitterer

      Simple: Web + VC = Surveillance Capitalism* ___ * When you drop the client/server (centralised) architecture of the Web into an enzymatic vat of Venture Capital that incentivises cancer-like growth of the servers (centres) followed by exits, you get Surveillance Capitalism.https://twitter.com/vergesskrieg/status/995196604939423744 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Alexander Kitterer @vergesskrieg
      "How did we end up in a world where tech firms build addictive services to grab our data – only to pitch #AI solutions for the very addiction problem they created?" @evgenymorozov
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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

      Call the Web (“the Cloud”) by its true name: Mainframe 2.0. We’ve regressed from owning and using our own machines in the democratic era of the personal computer to once again using other people’s machines. Our new mainframes are the Googles and the Facebooks.

      12:15 AM - 12 May 2018
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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

          The pendulum of technological topology: Mainframe (centralised) → Personal Computer (decentralised) → Mainframe 2.0 (centralised) → Personal Network (decentralised) Today, we’re in the midst of the swing from the Mainframe 2.0 era to the Personal Network era.

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

          How quickly (and if) we can swing the pendulum from the Mainframe 2.0 era to the Personal Network era will determine – perhaps more than any other factor, including current hierarchical/organised politics – the state of our human rights and democracy in the digital/networked age.

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        4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

          And, of course, whether & how quickly the pendulum swings from the Mainframe 2.0 era to the Personal Network era depends not solely on the lines of code we write but also on the funding (or lack thereof) & the support/barriers enacted by current politics so engagement is crucial.

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        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

          However, having now experienced the internal dynamics of even a left-wing/progressive hierarchical political movement/party, it’s clear hierarchical political structures cannot reform a centralised system (thereby making themselves redundant) unless that is their core mission.

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        6. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 12

          So while we must engage with current hierarchical/organised politics to effect the change we need, the goal of the change is to imbue individuals with the infrastructure they need to express political agency without need of hierarchical political organisations. #decentralisation

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