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Science, democracy & technology: Being Linnaean in the digital age
Mathias Klang @klang67
Peter “Fearless” Forsskål (1732-1763)Forsskaolea tenacissima
"looking like a tough character that does not want or need a caress"
Access to “Truth” (knowledge)
Thoughts on civil liberty (1759)
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Truth always wins when it is allowed to be denied and defended equally (§8)
Civil liberty is the unlimited freedom of the written word (7§)
People oppress each other (5§)
Censor librorum: Niklas
von Oelreich
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
A ridiculously brief history of computing
Generation zero
hollerith
World wide web (an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)
The digital is the original & everything is copy
Interfaces of knowledge
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Only 30 kg
Limitless 303 grams
“all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” Pangloss in Candide (1759)
Infrastructures of control
To this liberty, the greatest danger is always posed by those who are the most powerful in the country by dint of their positions, estate, or wealth. Not only can they easily abuse the power they hold, but also constantly increase their rights and strength, so that the other inhabitants must fear them more and more. (4§)
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Formats, (false) metaphors and drm
Ephemeral knowledge
Lenses to the world
Surveillance as hidden cost
To ensure digital civil liberty politicians must be fearless, weigh people above commerce & speech above infrastructure
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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