{"id":8954,"date":"2018-01-19T01:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2018-01-23T01:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:54:50","slug":"dominance-submission-radios-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/19\/dominance-submission-radios-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominance &#038; Submission (Radios Appear)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/science-and-technology\/how-the-internet-controls-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Prospect<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"page-title\">How the internet controls you<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"page-subtitle\">Corporate giants have created an entirely new surveillance capitalism. And we&#8217;re too hooked to care<\/h2>\n<p>by John Naughton<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4o49mRLQnQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdust of exploded beliefs,\u201d the English aphorist Geoffrey Madan once wrote, \u201cmay make a fine sunset.\u201d We\u2019re beginning to see that glow over the internet which, if you count back to the design phase in the autumn of 1973, is now over four decades old.<\/p>\n<p>From the moment the internet first opened for semi-public use in January 1983, it evoked utopian dreams. It was easy to see why. Cyberspace\u2014the term coined by the novelist William Gibson for the virtual space behind the screen\u2014really did seem to be a parallel universe to \u201cmeatspace,\u201d the term invented by Grateful-Dead-lyricist-turned-essayist John Perry Barlow for the messy physical world that we all inhabit. Cyberspace in the 1980s was a glorious sandpit for geeks: a world with no corporations, no crime, no spam, no hate speech, relatively civil discourse, no editorial gatekeepers, no regulation and no role for those meatspace masters whom Barlow called the \u201cweary giants of flesh and steel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then, gradually, the internet was commercialised and those two parallel spaces merged to create our networked world, in which the affordances of cyberspace combine with surveillance and corporate control. Of course, the internet has brought huge benefits in terms of access to information and efficiency of communication: try imagining our home or work lives without it. But there are serious worries. The online world is populated by several billion mostly passive addicts of devices, apps and services created by a handful of corporate giants. Prying governments and giant companies have acquired the capacity to surveil our every move, both on the internet and, now that so many devices have built-in GPS, in the real world too. Through their ability to monitor our searches these companies\u2014as well as the governments they co-operate with\u2014are able to see our innermost thoughts and desires. (Yes, even our desires: what people search for on Google is incredibly revealing.)<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/science-and-technology\/how-the-internet-controls-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Prospect<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Prospect How the internet controls you Corporate giants have created an entirely new surveillance capitalism. And we&#8217;re too hooked to care by John Naughton The \u201cdust of exploded beliefs,\u201d the English aphorist Geoffrey Madan once wrote, \u201cmay make a fine sunset.\u201d We\u2019re beginning to see that glow over the internet which, if you count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}