There was one thought that could jolt me right out of any nice nap: The other word for the new media business model I was describing was “surveillance.”
Because here’s the thing: Collecting information is easy, traditional, and essentially inconsequential. Connecting information, however, is the radical act that will either empower or destroy us.
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- Xark!: If the NSA freaks you out & you still use Google, you are an idiot (via schlomo)
The problem with humans isn’t that we’re inheriently good or bad, it’s that eventually some greedy asshole turns everything we learn into a weapon.
So if you’re talking about the NSA in the context of 20th century notions of privacy, stop. And if you’re making a big wailing deal about government intrusion via the collection of our metadata, prove you’re not a nut and devote at least 75 percent of that outrage toward the larger threat: The private, unregulated, unreported, unseen world of corporate Big Data.
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