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With Cory Doctorow (Author & Co-editor, Boing Boing) & Jad Abumrad (Author, Radiolab).
Thu, Sep 27, 2018 @ 05:00 PM   FREE   Furnald Lawn, 2950 Broadway
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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Beyond I agree: A democratic technology, without Big Tech.
The techlash marks the end of complacency over Big Tech: in a single instant, states have gone from being completely blase about the risks of a monopolized digital world run by high-handed CEOs who answer only to their shareholders, to being certain that the answer involves limiting the excesses of the digital monopolistsby enshrining them as permanent monarchs of the internet & then extracting some regulatory promises from them.
It's a form of Constitutional Monarchy, in which Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter & their ilk are acknowledged as the rightful rulers of the net, & then subjected to the limits placed on them by aristocratic/technocratic regulators.
There's a better way. A more democratic way. The way of the hacker. Hackers don't accept take-it-or-leave it offers. Instead, hackers take the parts they want & filter out the parts they don't. The most democratic future is one in which we tame big tech by taking away its legal right to stop users - & the toolsmiths who serve them - from picking & choosing the parts of the platforms we like, configuring them to suit our needs with third-party tools, & tearing up the take-it-or-leave it deal that's on the table today.
It's undemocratic to have the world shaped by a tiny elite of coders. It's less democratic to leave the shape of the world up to the coders' massive profit-driven employers. The MOST democratic future is one where everyone gets to hack, where we seize the means of computation & distribute it to everyone.
A public lecture by Cory Doctorow followed by a Q&A with Jad Abumrad
 
 
 
 
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