Monday, January 08, 2007
Announcing F2C: Freedom to Connect
F2C: Freedom to Connect,
March 5 & 6, Washington, DC
http://freedom-to-connect.net
Special price in effect this week only, $250, expires 9:00 PM on 1/15/07.
F2C: Freedom to Connect is the isen.com gathering of SMART People to discuss the infrastructure of the Internet and all that it enables. F2C's theme-setting speaker this year is Yochai Benkler, whose 2006 book, _The Wealth of Networks_, is the most important book I've read recently. Benkler intimates that we're underestimating the long-term impact of the Internet. Specifically, he says, open source software, Wikipedia and Second Life are signals of a future where large-scale networked cooperation becomes as important a means of production as industry and marketplace. At F2C, we'll explore this hypothesis, the evidence pro and con, the scenarios that it suggests for a transformed future, and some other scenarios that may obtain if Benkler's hypothesis doesn't pan out. And we'll attempt to discern additional clues to our networked future from current movement in technology, policy, business and economics.
The early list of committed speakers to F2C includes Mark Cooper, Susan Crawford, Dan Gillmor, Mary Hodder, Reed Hundt, Jonathan Krim, Blair Levin, Cory Ondrejka, Gigi Sohn and David Weinberger (in addition to Benkler). This early list is UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- more additions are imminent.
The special rate of $250, for very early birds, expires in one week . . . a word to the SMART.
I hope to see you at F2C: Freedom to Connect! -- David I
March 5 & 6, Washington, DC
http://freedom-to-connect.net
Special price in effect this week only, $250, expires 9:00 PM on 1/15/07.
F2C: Freedom to Connect is the isen.com gathering of SMART People to discuss the infrastructure of the Internet and all that it enables. F2C's theme-setting speaker this year is Yochai Benkler, whose 2006 book, _The Wealth of Networks_, is the most important book I've read recently. Benkler intimates that we're underestimating the long-term impact of the Internet. Specifically, he says, open source software, Wikipedia and Second Life are signals of a future where large-scale networked cooperation becomes as important a means of production as industry and marketplace. At F2C, we'll explore this hypothesis, the evidence pro and con, the scenarios that it suggests for a transformed future, and some other scenarios that may obtain if Benkler's hypothesis doesn't pan out. And we'll attempt to discern additional clues to our networked future from current movement in technology, policy, business and economics.
The early list of committed speakers to F2C includes Mark Cooper, Susan Crawford, Dan Gillmor, Mary Hodder, Reed Hundt, Jonathan Krim, Blair Levin, Cory Ondrejka, Gigi Sohn and David Weinberger (in addition to Benkler). This early list is UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- more additions are imminent.
The special rate of $250, for very early birds, expires in one week . . . a word to the SMART.
I hope to see you at F2C: Freedom to Connect! -- David I
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Comments:
David,
Great to have F2C coming around again -- a highpoint of years past for me.
DARK FUTURE
I see a darker future than F2C2007's theme of civic renewal and global community. Sure, big change is coming.
The atomic bomb is to pulverizing a rock what the Internet is to human society.
The Internet changes how we communicate, how we create our social institutions, what we can do as political animals--it all changes.
The Internet is the great new technology of our time. Like atomic power or any great scientific advance, the Internet is as much a force for good as for evil, a force for good and evil thrust upon an ignorant society initially unprepared to comprehend or channel the consequences.
The foundation for evil has been laid in Congressional authorization to tap your phone, in stolen Call Detail Records to spread the fishing net to your entire social circle, in government access to every GPS coordinate in your cellphone records ("just biling data") and in FCC Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to extend the shadow of legal surveillance to the Internet itself. We the people authorized government computers to run algorithms and database dips that turn on phone taps by the thousands. Now, since phone calls are moving to the Internet, clearly the FCC must extend CALEA (the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, passed by Congress in 1994) to authorize surveillance of everything we search or do, say or purchase, on the Internet.
Doubtful? Then learn about "deep packet inspection". The government is in the business of tapping phones, but you cannot tap a "phone line" on the Internet because there are no phone lines. Think it through. All packets must be sorted to get the ones in the phone call stream, and so the foundation for evil is complete.
The future is dark. In China, those who saw the power of the Internet first quickly moved to neuter it. When the power of the Internet is widely understood, the Internet will be neutralized and transformed to a tool of intimidation. We know what you did! The foundation has been laid in legalized spying of the powerful against the powerless, in technology, in the 110 million square feet of space at the National Security Agency, eleven times New York's entire (destroyed) World Trade Center.
Enjoy the nightmare of a dark future. Dream of a century of civic renewal that might have been ours. While you dream, those already awake have taken care to tighten their grip on levers of power.
--jerry
Jerry Nelson
McLean, VA
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Great to have F2C coming around again -- a highpoint of years past for me.
DARK FUTURE
I see a darker future than F2C2007's theme of civic renewal and global community. Sure, big change is coming.
The atomic bomb is to pulverizing a rock what the Internet is to human society.
The Internet changes how we communicate, how we create our social institutions, what we can do as political animals--it all changes.
The Internet is the great new technology of our time. Like atomic power or any great scientific advance, the Internet is as much a force for good as for evil, a force for good and evil thrust upon an ignorant society initially unprepared to comprehend or channel the consequences.
The foundation for evil has been laid in Congressional authorization to tap your phone, in stolen Call Detail Records to spread the fishing net to your entire social circle, in government access to every GPS coordinate in your cellphone records ("just biling data") and in FCC Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to extend the shadow of legal surveillance to the Internet itself. We the people authorized government computers to run algorithms and database dips that turn on phone taps by the thousands. Now, since phone calls are moving to the Internet, clearly the FCC must extend CALEA (the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, passed by Congress in 1994) to authorize surveillance of everything we search or do, say or purchase, on the Internet.
Doubtful? Then learn about "deep packet inspection". The government is in the business of tapping phones, but you cannot tap a "phone line" on the Internet because there are no phone lines. Think it through. All packets must be sorted to get the ones in the phone call stream, and so the foundation for evil is complete.
The future is dark. In China, those who saw the power of the Internet first quickly moved to neuter it. When the power of the Internet is widely understood, the Internet will be neutralized and transformed to a tool of intimidation. We know what you did! The foundation has been laid in legalized spying of the powerful against the powerless, in technology, in the 110 million square feet of space at the National Security Agency, eleven times New York's entire (destroyed) World Trade Center.
Enjoy the nightmare of a dark future. Dream of a century of civic renewal that might have been ours. While you dream, those already awake have taken care to tighten their grip on levers of power.
--jerry
Jerry Nelson
McLean, VA
