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... Doubleclick already existed in 1997? .... hUH.
(Watching a 1997 BBC documentary about The Internet.)
(And.. the last section is about advertising and user tracking, which was pretty perceptive of them and not at all what I expected to come right after the brief section ending "... end then the NEXT steps in user interfaces will be THREE dimensional!".)
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I think that the emergence of cyberspace and the related technological developments with chip cards and so forth,
is really bringing to a head the question of which of two roads we're going to go down, because I don't believe there is any significant middle ground.
Either we're going to be moving towards a world in which people are data subjects, that all information about them and their activities is known to others,
or, alternatively, people have control over their own information.
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.... oUCH.
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However we manage it, money and big business will change the web. Once the web becomes a place to do business, those businesses will demand that the traditional anarchy be cleaned away, and replaced by a web that better protects their interests.
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O U C H .
Meanwhile, *1997 fed voice* "Narcoterrorism" holy FRICK.
*1997 fed voice* ~"Yes there are some people who want to keep using the web to communicate and share ideas with likeminded people.
But then you have commerce trying to use the net for commercial applications, and you can't have it both ways. And there will be these demands that the government step in and maintain a policing role there."~
~whelp free speech and free assembly and all that, but sometimes that needs to be sacrificed so people can make MONEY~
(And like actually. This is a legit suited FBI fed saying this, straight-faced, with minimal apologetic tone, on camera.)
@gaditb Somehow reminded of this excerpt from a book I read a while back.
"an ideologically motivated American 30-year-old illegally distributed an encoding algorithm called PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy. One could wonder what the use of such an algorithm designed to evade government and law enforcement oversight would be. Researchers sharing confidential data to co-workers? A corporation that would dare to use electronic networking to spread private data? More certainly, it would be organized crime networks."
@Alix @gaditb There's an interesting and apparently long-standing mentality that an individual's actions are always suspect but if a corporation is involved it must surely all be above board. It is so strange.
The only difference, as far as I can tell, is money.
"If there's a buck in it, it must be a good thing."