Clipped from socialcapital.wordpress.comInternet showing you what they think you want, not what you needUnlike in the past, this is not “opt in” cyberbalkanization but automatic. And since it happens behind-the-scenes, you can’t know what you’re not seeing. One’s search of Tunisia on Google might not even tell you about the political uprising if you haven’t expressed interest in politics in the past. Eric Schmidt of Google said “It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them.”Pariser notes that we all have internal battles between our aspirational selves (who want greater diversity) and our current selves (who often want something easy to consume). In most of our lives or Netflix queues we continually play out these battles with sometimes our aspirational selves winning out. These filter bubbles edit out our aspirational selves when we need a mix of vegetables and dessert. Pariser believes that the algorithmic gatekeepers need to show us things that are not only junk food but also things that are challenging, important and uncomfortable and present competing points of view. We need Internet ethics in the way that journalistic ethics were introduced in 1915 with transparency and a sense of civic responsibility and room for user control.Read more at socialcapital.wordpress.com
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Not just Ethical, but Aspirational Enabling Synthetic Salience
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Happy !Birthday Al Gore, 63 today. Former VP of the US. !Nobel Peace prize. #Inventor of the !internet (he'll never live that down) haha ;-)
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Happy !Birthday Al Gore, 63 today. Former VP of the US. !Nobel Peace prize. #Inventor of the !internet (he'll never live that down) haha ;-)
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Second Life with BCI
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“URL persistence is a valuable aim says…
“URL persistence is a valuable aim says Ian Jacobs, a spokesman for the World Wide Web Consortium in Boston, Massachusetts; users should be able to browse the latest version of a page or one on a given date.” Memento: LANL’s Time Travel Web demo.
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Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics
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On Thursday, November 12, 2009, sponsored by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics: Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of robotics in warfare, medicine, and exploration. Industry analysts and UN statistics predict equally significant growth in the market for personal or service robotics over the next few years. What unique legal challenges will the widespread availability of sophisticated robots pose? Three panelists with deep and varied expertise discuss the present, near future, and far future of robotics and the law.
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