E 'a few years that futurists and analysts Sunday lavish praise for the exceptional accuracy of the advances of George Orwell voyeuristic about the evolution of our social world. Until yesterday, everything seemed a stretch to print a real threat, more a reason to make "trash talking" that a genuine concern. Now things are changing very rapidly, and the problem is that most of us (which considers the issues already addressed and discussed the issue with Orwell, Big Brother) does not realize the speed and power of this change, and even worse, losing the ability to defend against this flow, which in large steps, will lead us to put our lives on display. But let's step back a little, trying to understand how, step by step, we have lost our privacy.
The real problem was the birth of the Internet. It existed before the investigators (who were following us to see what they were doing and who attended) and eavesdroppers (who recorded the telephone calls from fixed phones and then cell phone). To be the subject of interest by these gentlemen had to have done something extra that you have tried the word "bomb" on a search engine, I assure you. Then came the intenet, that in any case, before becoming dangerous has experienced a five-year period of adaptation, which was not only very powerful, very uncommon. Therefore, the individual moment of rupture at the time of the Our mothers and fathers (baby boomers), our teachers and our "stupid friends" have begun to consider the network just like the coffee: necessary, since the morning. Since then "they" (the network, so anyone) can know what we, what we look, what to write. Remains valid, the concept that not all of us are in the public interest and institutional. The email and internet history of the "Lady Gina" probably were and still are of little interest as well as too fragmented to be useful "as a whole" for statistical purposes. Internet remains one of the many media, with television, print, mobile and fixed phones. Here, this time finished now a few years ago, egna the line, is the big misunderstanding: the press and the generalist TV begin their barrage of news reports and made covers which demonizes the new Risk-Internet, the threat of infringement of privacy. The world digests the problem, he believes he could easily defend because the information at stake are not so important. Never mind, after all, if someone knows that I'm interested in esotericism geese book online a trip to Paris. Full speed ahead! And the guard is lowered just as the process was really taking hold of our lives with a host of new technologies and APPLICATIONS who, at that point, were regarded as entirely normal and legitimate: I'm talking about Technology VOIP (Skype) but most of Facebook, what I call "the revenge of nullity." If Skype (fortunately not too common) is just one more step in the control of information, but Facebook is the drug for the mass that suddenly becomes persente permanently on the network, creating a database of unimaginable available to anyone who is concerned, riding the wave of enthusiasm for new users of the network post-MSN Messenger. Facebook is used by all, is the first time that the friends of our parents do a thing with us, just like us. The basic principle of this social network is the lever of personal-brand-awareness, which is the tease the narcissism inherent in everyone. There are people who delude themselves to reinvigorate and enhance their social image through stories cleverly constructed, subject to status declarations, photographs, films. I happened more than once to feel a certain need to be there, by some friends in certain situations: "Come on, we take a picture" - they say - as if the picture represented the very existence of that moment. If it is not on Facebook, in short, does not exist. This gave way to many people who believed to live in the shadow of building a "personal brand" and the most good (basics of marketing will help a lot in this direction) to create even a character who is spied, imitated, envied. As another example, I happened more than once to grasp that my interlocutor knew exactly what I had done the summer before and especially those who had attended. Some questions are more in the era of Facebook. Many cases are then discronia, or to people who want to give a picture of himself from reality, because FB gives way at all to be storytellers. But everything has a price, that of absolute certainty of not being able to go back, can not erase anything. Verba volant, bytes manent.
Well, in summary, as well as Ecelon, the large ears of the CIA, we tested the VOIP calls, and in life every day, to the extent that we leave our tracks on the Internet, sites, social networks and more. Google does the rest, the real danger of the Internet 3.0, that of the "uninterrupted flow of information."
Google has a search engine, a provider of email (Gmail), applications, Earth, Maps, Docs, a web browser (Chrome), Youtube, and launching applications is formidable as Google and Google Voice Wave (a sharing system that combines MESSAGING, qualsiassi documents or anything else). You've forgotten curamente market something, but it is certain that this package represents the final package of the spy "and what is worse is that it is the full developmental stage. The Android operating system may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Android is an operating system for mobile phones and smartphones, to compete with Symbian and Windows Mobile and its victory over the rivals could be the decisive battle Google in the knowledge economy. Internet, voice and location. Nothing would be more out of their reach. The only think that a impiegatino Google, eating stale pizza, could have a few laughs by clicking on my files, access to so much of my life scares me. Fear of Google, so the New York Times has called the phenomenon, which fortunately has been detected, the collective psychosis of information control. It is not Microsoft, But Google, the biggest thing on the network.
Another risk is that terrible of the assimilation of Google with the concept of "knowledge". Here in Italy we are concerned about press freedom, knowing that most people today are what they are looking on the internet, no newspapers, and less and less TV. Television is set to see drastically reduced its role not just disappear generation of housewives is not computerized, the only day on the edge of the computerization process. The TV will scale over time to the role of on-demand content will be fully integrated with the Internet, live on the web, integrated with its giant flow of information, preferences, content, traceability. Even today many confuse Google with the Oracle at Delphi, asking direct questions, and believing that his rispostre be prophetic Google Books (which I had overlooked) is aimed at this, to give a kind of cultural legitimacy to general inquiries . Think of the danger of seeing all that truth is on the Internet. Not coincidentally because the Web is the place where all theories complottisitche, more or less extravagant, and listeners are gullible supporters.
then get ready to defend our privacy and our knowledge of the network by the monster. I can see tomorrow Tutoring companies that will arise for the personal presence on the internet for advice on creating secure communication structures. The Internet presence can have many sides posisitvi but for now it seems clear that the prospective risks are far greater. Ah, I forgot, this blog is hosted by Google.
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