Learning Notebook - David Rostcheck
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Harvard law professor and author discusses the unusual and distinctive technologies whose power increases in proportion to the people participating in them, contrasted with other technologies that leverage what the few can impose on the many -- whether a
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Technologies that depend on their open social infrastructure to succeed (ex. Wikipedia). Census company (Herman Hollerwith) leading to IBM. Central control (main menu) vs. open (Apple IIe). Homebrew cooked-up networks vs. centrally planned ones. Importance of playful culture. Your values are infused into your technology. CompuServe vs. Internet (authentication/main menu vs command line). Internet - no billing model. The technology works because a culture of people who don't report to me tweaks it as needed. Apple had no idea why IIe's were selling like mad (Visicalc). Tension vs. walled gardens (iPhone, Steve Jobs as gatekeeper, app vetting). Ability to pull IP off your device from Central Control. Onstar surveillance. Hurdict - pulling out herd knowledge (experts don't click on dancing hamster). Hurdict Web - finding censorship.
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