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Who Governs Digital Trust? Lockdown versus Creativity
Friday 3 August 2012
This comes via Stewart Brand at the LongNow Foundation and is reproduced in full. It summarises the talk that Cory Doctorow gave to the seminar group. The email started with: Doctorow framed the question this way: “Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into---airplanes, cars---and something we put into our bodies---pacemakers, cochlear implants. They HAVE to be trustworthy.“ Sometimes humans are not so trustworthy, and programs may override you: “I can’t let you do that, Dave.” (Reference to the self-protective insane computer Hal in Kubrick’s film “2001.” That time the human was more trustworthy than the computer.) Who decides who can override whom?
Alas I'm not in the US so getting in to see the public lectures is difficult, and if you're nearby they might be a useful thing for you to drop into. You can check out the site and join the mailing list via this link to the Long Now Foundation
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