CHAPTER 1 Don’t Steal This Book

CHAPTER 1 Don’t Steal This Book
Note:1@@@@@@@@@@@@

Yellow highlight | Location: 143

Before you read this book, please submit your user name and password.
Note:COMINCIA L ODISSEA

Yellow highlight | Location: 161

software is eating the world,”
Note:LA SENSAZIONE

Yellow highlight | Location: 162

“the biggest event in human history.”
Note:AI X MOLTI

Yellow highlight | Location: 165

soon will “know you better than you know yourself.”
Note:LA MACCHINA DI DOMANI

Yellow highlight | Location: 166

you will need to submit a credit card number
Note:X FARE TUTTO

Yellow highlight | Location: 167

security questions
Note:SE CI SONO INTOPPI...E CI SONO SEMPRE

Yellow highlight | Location: 172

industry is rapidly approaching a moment of “singularity.”
Note:X MOLTI

Yellow highlight | Location: 175

Advanced artificial intelligence and breakthroughs in biological codes are persuading many researchers that organisms such as human beings are simply the product of an algorithm.
Note:LA RELIGIONE CHE AVANZA....SIAMO ALGORITMI?

Yellow highlight | Location: 176

this algorithm can be interpreted and controlled through machine learning.
Note:Ccccccccccccc

Yellow highlight | Location: 177

The cloud computing and big data of companies such as Google,
Note:IL FULCRO

Yellow highlight | Location: 178

marriage
Note:SCELTE IA 1

Yellow highlight | Location: 178

medical care
Note:2

Yellow highlight | Location: 179

bitcoin wallet
Note:3

Yellow highlight | Location: 180

most of your jobs.
Note:4

Yellow highlight | Location: 180

new digital world may not need you anymore.
Note:LA TESI DI MOLTI

Yellow highlight | Location: 180

you can retire on an income which we regard as satisfactory for you.
Note:MA NN PREOCCUPATEVI

Yellow highlight | Location: 182

most human beings unemployable because they are intellectually inferior to AI algorithms.
Note:L OPINIONE DEI BOSS SILICON VALLEY

Yellow highlight | Location: 182

Did you know that Google AI defeated the world Go champion in five straight contests?
Note:TANTO VX DIRE

Yellow highlight | Location: 185

For every obsolescent homo sapiens, the leading Silicon Valley magnates recommend a federally guaranteed annual income.
Note:LA SOLUZIONE...FREE MONEY

Yellow highlight | Location: 186

In addition, you, a sophisticated cyber-savvy reader, may well be among the exceptional elites
Note:ALTERNATIVA DA NN ESCLUDERE

Yellow highlight | Location: 188

You may even count yourselves among the big data demiurges
Note:Ccccccccc

Yellow highlight | Location: 190

homo deus.
Note:UN MEGA BUROCRATE CON UNA CORTE DI MACCHINE INTELLIGENTI

Yellow highlight | Location: 191

talk of human gods, omniscience, and elite supremacy
Note:UN TEMA NN NUOVO

Yellow highlight | Location: 198

Meanwhile, it was obvious that security on the Internet had collapsed.
Note:PRIMO VULNUS

Yellow highlight | Location: 203

the key rule shielding civilization from cyborg invaders is “never link the computers.”
Note:GALACTICA

Yellow highlight | Location: 204

the very idea of the network will become suspect?
Note:CHI È DENTRO È FINITO

Yellow highlight | Location: 204

finance and insurance, have already essentially moved off-line.
Note:GIÀ OGGI

Yellow highlight | Location: 206

nothing critical goes on the Net.
Note:PAROLA D ORDINE

Yellow highlight | Location: 207

Silicon Valley has pretty much given up.
Note:IL MITO DELLA SICUREZZA

Yellow highlight | Location: 208

security system has broken down just as the computer elite have begun indulging the most fevered fantasies about the capabilities of their machines
Note:UNA CORRELAZIONE

Yellow highlight | Location: 213

Silicon Valley seems to have adopted what can best be described as a neo-Marxist political ideology and technological vision.
Note:REAZIONE AI BICHI

Yellow highlight | Location: 216

the first Marxism espoused a belief that the industrial revolution
Note:A CHI SI STUPISCE IL KMARXISMO NN È ANTITECNOLOGICO

Yellow highlight | Location: 219

Marx’s essential tenet was that in the future, the key problem of economics would become not production amid scarcity but redistribution of abundance.
Note:UN IDEA CHE CIRCOLA ANCHE OGGI

Yellow highlight | Location: 221

“Society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow,
Note:IL SOGNO

Yellow highlight | Location: 224

imagining that his own epoch was the final stage of human history.
Note:IL MARXISMO TORNA SEMPRE...ESCATOLOGIA MARXOSYA

Yellow highlight | Location: 226

The neo-Marxism of today’s Silicon Valley titans repeats the error of the old Marxists
Note:TESI.....IA ULTIMA CONQUISTA

Yellow highlight | Location: 229

All this is temporal provincialism and myopia,
Note:IA ULTIMA CONQUISTA

Yellow highlight | Location: 231

they imagine that it’s “winner take all for all time.”
Note:IL LORO IMMAGINARIO

Yellow highlight | Location: 232

this delusion is shared by Silicon Valley’s critics. The dystopians join the utopians
Note:MA ECCO IL BELLO

Yellow highlight | Location: 233

a supremely competent and visionary Silicon Valley, led by Google with its monopoly of information and intelligence.
Note:L UTGOPIA/DISTOPIA

Yellow highlight | Location: 235

Darwin made man just another animal,
Note:UNA STORIA GIÀ VISTA

Yellow highlight | Location: 235

Google-Marxism sees men as inferior intellectually to the company’s own algorithmic machines.
Note:Cccccccccc

Yellow highlight | Location: 236

Life after Google makes the opposing case that what the hyperventilating haruspices Yuval Harari, Nick Bostrom, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Tim Urban, and Elon Musk see as a world-changing AI juggernaut is in fact an industrial regime at the end of its rope. The crisis of the current order in security, privacy, intellectual property, business strategy, and technology is fundamental and cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture.
Note:TESI DEL LIBRO...I MIEI NEMICI...DOVE MLTI VEDONO UN INIZIO IO VEDO LA FINE

Yellow highlight | Location: 241

Security is the foundation of all
Note:NN MINIMIZZIAMO IL PRIMO VULNUS...IMPEDISCW I MICROPAGAMENTI

Yellow highlight | Location: 243

If your product is “free,” it is not a product, and you are not in business, even if you can extort money from so-called advertisers to fund it.
Note:VULNUS II...ZERO SEGNI I

Yellow highlight | Location: 246

don’t pretend that you have customers.
Note:OPEN SOURCE

Yellow highlight | Location: 249

The original distributed Internet architecture sufficed when everything was “free,” as the Internet was not a vehicle for transactions.
Note:LA RETE ALL INIZIO...ZERO PASS

Yellow highlight | Location: 251

when the Internet became a forum for monetary transactions,
Note:QUI CAMBIA TUTTO...ARRIVANO LE PASS

Yellow highlight | Location: 252

EBay led the way by purchasing PayPal, which was not actually an Internet service but an outside party that increased the efficiency of online transactions.
Note:IL RIMEDIO...INIZIANO LE PASS

Yellow highlight | Location: 255

early in the twenty-first century, much of the Internet was occupied with transactions, and the industry retreated to the “cloud.”
Note:CON AMAZON E APPLE...TRANSAZIONI...DILUVIO DI PASS

Yellow highlight | Location: 256

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs replaced it with centralized and segmented subscription systems, such as Paypal, Amazon, Apple’s iTunes, Facebook, and Google cloud. Uber, Airbnb, and other sequestered “unicorns” followed. These so-called “walled gardens”
Note:LA FINE DELLA RETE DECENTRATA...METTI LA PASS ED ENTRI IN UN MONDO

Note | Location: 258

GIARDINO CON RECINTO...MA MAGARI AVESSE IL RECINTO SICURO

Yellow highlight | Location: 260

Amazon has largely succeeded in isolating its own domains
Note:L ESEMPIO DI AMAZON

Yellow highlight | Location: 260

But these centralized fortresses violated the Coase Theorem
Note:PROBLEMA

Yellow highlight | Location: 261

Nobel-laureate economist Ronald Coase calculated that a business should internalize transactions only to the point that the costs of finding and contracting with outside parties exceed the inefficiencies
Note:IL YEOREMA DI COASE SULLA DIMENSIONE OTTIMA

Yellow highlight | Location: 263

The concentration of data in walled gardens increases the cost of security.
Note:UN PARTICOLARE COSTO DI TRANS...

Yellow highlight | Location: 266

it is dispersed through the cloud, funded through advertising, and combined with a spurious sharing of free goods.
Note:IL NUOVO CAPITALISMO

Yellow highlight | Location: 267

the new Marxism is delusional today.
ANCHE IL VECCHIO SI PRESENTÒ IN MODO GRANDIOSO