difesa del totalitarismo.

Ecco quindi una teoria su come il totalitarismo potrebbe trionfare naturalmente. L'idea di base è che quando l'informazione è costosa, la democrazia liberale vince perché raccoglie più informazioni e migliori rispetto alle società chiuse, ma quando l'informazione è economica, i tornei di informazione a somma negativa assorbono una parte sempre più grande delle risorse di una società liberale. Ricordiamo che non credo a questa teoria; sto solo cercando di formularla.

 DENSO DI INFORMAZIONE

"Denso di informazione". Mi sono imbattuto in questa espressione che mi piace. Intendo utilizzarla il più possibile.

I libri non sono "densi di informazione". Gli editoriali dei giornali nemmeno.

Substack invece è "denso di informazione".

Spero di trovare al più presto altre applicazioni proficue.

ATOMI E BIT

ATOMI E BIT

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COMPETERE PER L’ATTENZIONE

Riccardo Mariani

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COMPETERE PER L’ATTENZIONE

Quando si compete per l’attenzione altrui, come tipico nell’era dell’informazione, offrire un piacere di natura sensoriale diventa un surplus decisivo. Anche così si spiega la proliferazione dell’estetica in tutti i campi: la pianista non deve essere solo una virtuosa ma anche una bella ragazza, il ristorante non deve solo offrire cibo di prima qualità ma anche un’atmosfera piacevole, il ricercatore non deve solo presentare una ricerca interessante ma anche ben confezionata su powerpoint…

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The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience.…

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1 - Infoeconomy

The information economy. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian

TESI: PER LA NEW ECONOMY CI VUOLE UNA NUOVA ECONOMIA.

The public rapidly gained access to new and dramatically faster communication technologies. Entrepreneurs, able to draw on unprecedented scale economies, built vast empires. Great fortunes were made. The government demanded that these powerful new monopolists be held accountable under antitrust law.

Note: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: ECONOMIE DI SCALA IMPRESSIONANTI. CHE FARE? Edit

Using the infrastructure of the emerging electricity and telephone networks, these industrialists transformed the U.S. economy, just as today’s Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are drawing on computer and communications infrastructure to transform the world’s economy.

Note: SFRUTTATA LA VECCHIA INFRASTRUTTURA DI RETE: LUCE E TELEFONI Edit

Netscape, the one-time darling of the stock market, offers a good example of how economic principles can serve as an early warning system. We’re not sure exactly how software for viewing Web pages will evolve, but we do know that Netscape is fundamentally vulnerable because its chief competitor, Microsoft, controls the operating environment of which a Web browser is but one component.... operating environment of which a Web browser is but one component.

Note: IL CONFRONTO NETSCAPE VS MICROSOFT INEGNA MOLTE COSE SU COME VANNO LE COSE IN QUESTO SETTORE, SU CHI VINCE, CHI PERDE E PERCHE’ Edit

In our framework, Netscape is facing a classic problem of interconnection: Netscape’s browser needs to work in conjunction with Microsoft’s operating system. Local telephone companies battling the Bell System around 1900 faced a similar dependency upon their chief rival when they tried to interconnect with Bell to offer long-distance service.

Note: UN PARALLELO CON L'AVVENTO DEI TELEFONI Edit

Information is costly to produce but cheap to reproduce.... Economists say that production of an information good involves high fixed costs but low marginal costs.... high fixed costs but low marginal costs.

Note: FUNZIONE PRODUTTIVA DI CHI GENERA INFORMAZIONE Edit

cost-based pricing just doesn’t work: a 10 or 20 percent markup on unit cost makes no sense when unit cost is zero. You must price your information goods according to consumer value, not according to your production cost.

Note: IL PREZZO È DETTATO DALLA DOMANDA Edit

Since people have widely different values for a particular piece of information, value-based pricing leads naturally to differential pricing.

Note: VARIABILITÀ ENORME NEI PREZZI Edit

For example, one way to differentiate versions of the same information good is to use delay. Publishers first sell a hardback book and then issue a paperback several months later. The impatient consumers buy the high-priced hardback; the patient ones buy the low-priced paperback.

Note: FONDAMENTALE LA DISCRIMINAZIONE DI PREZZO. LA STRATEGIA DEL RITARDO Edit

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DECISIVO IL TRATTAMENTO DELLA PROPRIETÀ INTELLETTUALE.

It has long been recognized that some form of “privatization” of information helps to ensure its production.

Note: PER PRODURRE OCCORRE PRIVATIZZARE Edit

There is still the issue of enforcement, a problem that has become even more important with the rise of digital technology and the Internet. Digital information can be perfectly copied and instantaneously transmitted around the world, leading many content producers to view the Internet as one giant, out-of-control copying machine. If copies crowd out legitimate sales, the producers of information may not be able to recover their production costs.

Note: MA SU INTERNET DIFENDERE LA PROPRIETÀ È COSTOSO Edit

The history of the video industry is a good example. Hollywood was petrified by the advent of videotape recorders. The TV industry filed suits to prevent home copying of TV programs, and Disney attempted to distinguish video sales and rentals through licensing arrangements. All of these attempts failed. Ironically, Hollywood now makes more from video than from theater presentations for most productions.

Note: NON MANCANO I PRECEDENTI PER CONSTATARE LE FACILI SCAPPATOIE AI VINCOLI IMPOSTIEdit

Note: SOLUZIONE: CAMBIARE MODELLO  DI BUSINESS Edit

When managing intellectual property, your goal should be to choose the terms and conditions that maximize the value of your intellectual property, not the terms and conditions that maximize the protection.

Note: SCOPO IMPLICITO: MASSIMIZZARE IL VALORE ( E NON  PROTEZIONE DI UN DIRITTO) Edit

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L'INFO È UN BENE ESPRIENZIALE

Economists say that a good is an experience good if consumers must experience it to value it.

Note: IL PROBLEMA DELL' INFO: PER SAPERE QUANTO VALE DEVO CONOSCERLA. Edit

free samples, promotional pricing, and testimonials to help consumers learn about new goods.

Note: SOLUZIONI POSSIBILI PER COMMERCIAZZARE L'INFO Edit

How do you know whether today’s Wall Street Journal is worth 75 cents until you’ve read it? Answer: you don’t.

Note: IL PROBLEMA Edit

there are various forms of browsing: you can look at the headlines at the newsstand, hear pop tunes on the radio, and watch previews at the movies. But browsing is only part of the story.

Note: BROWSING COME PALLIATIVO Edit

Most media producers overcome the experience good problem through branding and reputation. The main reason that we read the Wall Street Journal today is that we’ve found it useful in the past.

Note: ALTRA SOLUZIONE: REPUTAZIONE Edit

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IL BENE PIÙ PREZIOSO: L'ATTENZIONE.

everyone is complaining of information overload.

Note: LA LAMENTELA Edit

“a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Nowadays the problem is not information access but information overload.

Note: IL MOTTO DI HERBERT SIMON Edit

The real value produced by an information provider comes in locating, filtering, and communicating what is useful to the consumer. It is no accident that the most popular Web sites belong to the search engines, those devices that allow people to find information they value and to avoid the rest.

Note: IL VERO VALORE NEL MONDO DELLA RETE È FILTRARE L' INFO NON PRODURLA Edit

In real estate, it is said that there are only three critical factors: location, location, and location. Any idiot can establish a Web presence—and lots of them have. The big problem is letting people know about it.

Note: UN PARALLELO CON LE IMMOBILIARI Edit

Web servers can observe the behavior of millions of customers and immediately produce customized content, bundled with customized ads.

Note: PUBBLICITÀ MIRATA SEMPRE PIÙ DECISIVA QUANDO L'ESIGENZA È ATTRARRE L'ATTENZIONE Edit

they can also access vast databases of information about customer history and demographics.

Note: IL TRACKING DICE TUTTO DI TE Edit

This new, one-to-one marketing benefits both parties in the transaction: the advertiser reaches exactly the market it wants to target, and consumers need give their attention only to ads that are likely to be of interest.

Note: PUBBLICITÀ MIRATA, BENEFICIO RECIPROCO… MA NON SOLO    

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INFO E TECNOLOGIA.

Infrastructure is to information as a bottle is to wine: the technology is the packaging that allows the information to be delivered to end consumers.

Note: INFO E INFRASTRUTTURA. UNA SIMBIOSI. Edit

The value of the Web lies in its capacity to provide immediate access… What’s new is our ability to manipulate information, not the total amount of information available. Mom-and-pop hardware stores of yesteryear regularly checked their inventories.

Note: LA DIFFERENZA RISPETTO A IERI Edit

Indeed, in every industry we see dramatic changes in technology that allow people to do more with the same information.

Note: IL PROGRESSO: FACCIAMO DI PIÙ CON LA STESSA INFO Edit

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LA COMPETIZIONE NELL'ERA DELLA RETE.

Traditional rules of competitive strategy focus on competitors, suppliers, and customers. In the information economy, companies selling complementary components, or complementors, are equally important. When you are selling one component of a system, you can’t compete if you’re not compatible with the rest of the system.

Note: DECISIVO PER LA COMPETIZIONE: LA COMPATIBILITÀ DEL PRODOTTO CON L'AMBIENTE ESTERNO Edit

The dependence of information technology on systems means that firms must focus not only on their competitors but also on their collaborators. Forming alliances,

Note: FORMARE ALLEANZE, ALTRO ELEMENTO FONDAMENTALE Edit

Firms have long been faced with make/buy decisions, but the need for collaboration, and the multitude of cooperative arrangements, has never been greater than in the area of infotech.

Note: MAKE/BUY DECISIONS. SEMPRE IMPORTANTE, ORA ANCORA DI PIÙ Edit

The history of the Microsoft-Intel partnership is a classic example. Microsoft focused almost exclusively on software, while Intel focused almost exclusively on hardware. They each made numerous strategic alliances and acquisitions that built on their strengths. The key for each company has been to commoditize complementary products without eroding the value of its own core strengths.

Note: UN CASO ESEMPLARE: MICROSOFT-INTEL. ALLEANZA VINCENTE Edit

Apple Computer pursued a very different strategy by producing a highly integrated product consisting of both a hardware platform and the software that ran on it. Their software and hardware was much more tightly integrated than the Microsoft/Intel offerings, so it performed better. (Microsoft recognized this early on and tried to license the Apple technology rather than investing in developing its own windowing system.) The downside was that the relative lack of competition (and, later, scale) made Apple products more expensive and, eventually, less powerful. In the long run, the “Wintel” strategy of strategic alliance was the better choice. Lock-In and Switching Costs

Note: LA STRATEGIA OPPOSTA DI APPLE: MENO ALLEANZE, INTEGRAZIKNE PIÙ DI QUALITÀ Edit

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COSTI DI CAMBIO E COSTI TRAPPOLA.

Remember long-playing phonograph records (LPs)? In our lexicon, these were “durable complementary assets” specific to a turntable but incompatible with the alternative technology of CDs. In plain English: they were durable and valuable, they worked with a turntable to play music, but they would not work in a CD player. As a result, Sony and Philips had to deal with considerable consumer switching costs

Note: UN CASO CLASSICO DI SWITCHING COST Edit

Fortunately for Sony and Philips, CDs offered significant improvement in convenience, durability, and sound quality over LPs, so consumers were willing to replace their music libraries.

Note: LA QUALITÀ NECESSARIA PER INDURRE AL SALTO Edit

As the impending problem of resetting computers to recognize the year 2000 illustrates, users of information technologies are notoriously subject to switching costs and lock-in: once you have chosen a technology, or a format for keeping information, switching can be very expensive. Most of us have experienced the costs of switching from one brand of computer software to another: data files are unlikely to transfer perfectly, incompatibilities with other tools often arise, and, most important, retraining is required.

Note: NEL MONDO IT SWITCH COST E LOCK IN SONO LA REGOLA Edit

Switching from Apple to Intel equipment involves not only new hardware but new software.

Note: ESEMPIO Edit

Lock-in can occur on an individual level, a company level, or even a societal level.

Note: UNA SOCIETÀ BLOCCATA. IL VALORE DELLA DIVERSITÀ PER DISINCAGLIARSI Edit

We explore lock-in and switching costs in Chapters 5 and 6. We’ll examine the different kinds of lock-in, strategies to incorporate proprietary features into your product, and ways to coordinate your strategy with that of your partners.

Note: MA IL LOCK IN – PURTROPPO - PUÒ ESSERE UNA STRATEGIA DI FIDELIZZAZIONE Edit

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ESTERNALITÀ DI RETE.

When the value of a product to one user depends on how many other users there are, economists say that this product exhibits network externalities, or network effects.

Note: DEFINIZIONE BENE DI RETE Edit

Technologies subject to strong network effects tend to exhibit long lead times followed by explosive growth. The pattern results from positive feedback: as the installed base of users grows, more and more users find adoption worthwhile. Eventually, the product achieves critical mass and takes over the market.

Note: CRESCITA ESPONENZIALE DELLE FETTE DI MERCATO Edit

The Internet exhibited the same pattern. The first e-mail message was sent in 1969, but up until the mid-1980s e-mail was used only by techies. Internet technology was developed in the early 1970s but didn’t really take off until the late 1980s. But when Internet traffic did finally start growing, it doubled every year from 1989 to 1995. After the Internet was privatized in April 1995, it started growing even faster.

Note: DINAMICA DEL BOOM DI INTERNET Edit

As a result, growth is a strategic imperative, not just to achieve the usual production side economies of scale but to achieve the demand side economies of scale generated by network effects.

Note: CRESCERE O MORIRE Edit

Netscape grabbed the Web browser market early on by giving away its product. It lost money on every sale but made up for it in volume.

Note: STRATEGIA: VENDERE IN PERDITA Edit

In competing to become the standard, or at least to achieve critical mass, consumer expectations are critical. In a very real sense, the product that is expected to become the standard will become the standard.

Note: DECISIVE LE ASPETTATIVE PRIMA ANCORA CHE I COMPORTAMENTI Edit

Competitive “pre-announcements” of a product’s appearance on the market are a good example of “expectations management.”... When network effects are strong, product announcements can be as important as the actual introduction of products...

Note: STRATEGIA DELL' ANNUNCIO

Product pre-announcements can be a two-edged sword, however. The announcement of a new, improved version of your product may cut into your competitors’ sales, but it can also cut into your own sales. When Intel developed the MMX technology for accelerating graphics in the fall of 1996, it was careful not to advertise it until after the Christmas season.

Note: L'ANNUNCIO: UNA SPADA A DOPPIO TAGLIO Edit

Because of the importance of critical mass, because customer expectations are so important in the area of information infrastructure, and because technology is evolving so rapidly, the timing of strategic moves is even more important in the information industry than in others.

Note: TIMING DECISIVO Edit

In November 1997 Sun took out full-page ads in the New York Times and other major newspapers reciting the long list of the members of the “Java coalition” to convey the impression that Java was the “next big thing.”

Note: L' ESEMPIO DI JAVA Edit

Adobe followed an openness strategy with its page description language, PostScript, explicitly allowing other software houses to implement PostScript interpreters, because they realized that such widespread use helped establish a standard.

Note: LE STRATEGIE DI ADOBE PER IMPORSI COME STANDARD Edit

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CONSIGLI DI POLICY.

The ongoing battle between Microsoft and the Justice Department illustrates the importance of antitrust policy in the information sector.

Note: ANTITRUST AL CENTRO Edit

Competitive strategy in the information economy collides with antitrust law in three primary areas: mergers and acquisitions, cooperative standard setting, and monopolization.

Note: TRE AREE CRITICHE Edit

As a new century arrives, the Sherman Act is flexible enough to prevent the heavy hand of monopoly from stifling innovation, while keeping markets competitive enough to stay the even heavier hand of government regulation from intruding in our dynamic hardware and software markets.

Note: CONCILIARE INNOVAZIONE E COMPETIZIONE: ECCO LA SFIDA Edit

SUNTO The Revolt of the Public di Martin Gurri - cap 1 e cap2

The Revolt of the Public di Martin Gurri Chapter 1 Prelude to a Turbulent Age

• Cosa connette tra loro questi eventi?: online universities...serial insurgencies which, in media noise and human blood, have rocked the Arab Middle East... faster churning of companies in and out of the S& P 500...death of news... Facebook.... google... smartphone... crisis of government in liberal democracies...
• an old, entrenched social order is passing away even as I write these words –one rooted in the hierarchies and conventions of industrial life.   Since no substitute has appeared on the horizon, we should, as tourists flying into the unknown,
• Information Is Cool, So Why Did It Explode?
• I also held the belief that information of the sort found in newspapers and television reports was identical to knowledge –so the more information, the better.   This was naïve
• A curious thing happens to sources of information under conditions of scarcity. They become authoritative... Cronkite emanated authority.
• as ever more published reports escaped the control of authoritative sources, how could we tell truth from error?   Or, in a more sinister vein, honest research from manipulation?
• A resident of Cairo, who in the 1980s could only stare dully at one of two state-owned channels showing all Mubarak all the time, by the 2000s had access to more than 400 national and international stations.
• More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species on earth.   In fact, 2001 doubled the previous total.   And 2002 doubled the amount present in 2001,
• How Walter Cronkite Became Katie Couric And the Audience Became the Public
• whatever sources I chose, I was left in a state of uncertainty –a permanent condition for analysis under the new dispensation. Uncertainty is an acid, corrosive to authority.
• a cloud of suspicion about cherry-picking data will hang over every authoritative judgment.
• Public discussion, for example, was limited to a very few topics of interest to the articulate elites.
• our sense of what is important fractured along the edges of countless niche interests.
• the pathologies involved,...
• the relationship between elites and non-elites, between authority and obedience.   That passive mass audience on which so many political and economic institutions depended
• communities relied on digital platforms for self-expression. They were vital and mostly virtual
• The voice of the vital communities was a new voice:   that of the amateur, of the educated non-elites, of a disaffected and unruly public.
• Communities of interest reflected the true and abiding tastes of the public.   The docile mass audience, so easily persuaded by advertisers and politicians, had been a monopolist’s fantasy
• When digital magic transformed information consumers into producers, an established order –grand hierarchies of power and money and learning –went into crisis. I have touched on the manner of the reaction:   not worry or regret over lost influence, but moral outrage and condemnation, sometimes accompanied by calls for repression.
• the truly epochal change, it turned out, was the revolution in the relationship between the public and authority in almost every domain
• I Christen the New Age And Other Definitional Illusions
• the slow-motion collision of two modes of organizing life:   one hierarchical, industrial, and top-down, the other networked, egalitarian, bottom-up.
• Lippmann was a brilliant political analyst, editor, and commentator. He wrote during the apogee of the top-down, industrial era of information... There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.”Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites.   From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed... “private citizen,”was a political amateur, a sheep in need of a shepherd,
• authority is a bit more like beauty:   we know it when we see it.
• The person in authority is a trained professional.   He’s an expert with access to hidden knowledge.   He perches near the top of some specialized hierarchy... he got there by a torturous process of accreditation,
• A cosa serve il monopolio nell'informazione e nella scuola...A crucial connection, as I said earlier, exists between institutional authority and monopoly conditions:   to the degree that an institution can command its field of play, its word will tend to go unchallenged.   This, rather than the obvious asymmetry in voice modulation, explains the difference between Cronkite and Katie Couric.
• The new age we have entered needs a name...“networked age,... “Digital age”........“digital revolution”
• Rivoluzioni
• 1 The invention of writing, for example... led to a form of government dependent on a mandarin or priestly caste.
• 2 The development of the alphabet was another: the republics of the classical world would have been unable to function without literate citizens.
• 3 A third wave, the arrival of the printing press and moveable type, was probably the most disruptive of all.   The Reformation, modern science, and the American and French revolutions would scarcely have been possible without printed books and pamphlets.
• 4 mass media. Industria
• 5 I think I have already established that we stand, everywhere, at the first moment of what promises to be a cataclysmic expansion of information and communication technology.
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Chapter 2 Hoder and Wael Ghonim

• Hossein Derakhshan, better known by his blogname “Hoder,” at a bloggers’ convention... Hoder was technically savvy: that was his claim to fame. But, for an Iranian and a supposed dissident, I found him surprisingly naïve... he was full of strange ideas about neocons conspiring with other Iranian exiles whom he didn’t like.... a very likeable person, possessed of a very ordinary intellect.
• A Twenty-Something in Toronto Opens a New Continent of Expression for Iranians
• He was not a politician, not a revolutionary, not a genius, not a scholar –not an authority of any sort.... chi era? the gifted amateur, propelled to unexpected places by the new information technology.
• In theory, the Iranian regime is a Platonic republic, with wise guardians protecting the moral... Recent history has seen cycles of superficial reforms to open up the system,
• it was during one of the moments of relative calm that the young Hoder began his career as an observer of the digital universe
• the ruling class confronted what has come to be called “the dictator’s dilemma”... For security reasons, dictators must control and restrict communications to a minimum.   To make their rule legitimate, however, they need prosperity, which can only be attained by the open exchange of information.   Choose.
• North Korea, for example, stands at the restrictive extreme.
• Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, lost power in part because of his vacillations
• Iran’s rulers chose differently.   Formally at least, they embraced blogging... and encouraged regime supporters to get online... Whole swaths of Blogistan are thus dedicated to “conservative” political and religious views.... the regime also blocked many websites, and currently holds the world record for bloggers thrown in jail.
• An Insignificant Man Threatens The Sanctities of a Very Large Nation
• I ran across him in Nashville, he seemed less a blogfather than an orphaned techno-gypsy, drifting from conference to conference.
• in the fall of 2008, Hoder travelled to Tehran.   And so it happened that, on the first day of November, the Iranian authorities at last caught up with the insignificant man:   they arrested Hoder...... 19 ½ years of incarceration for the crime of blogging. Idle to speculate why Hoder returned to Iran:   he was, as I noted, of a naïve and unrealistic temperament.
• Why did they arrest Hoder? Why the inordinate punishment? What did they, in full possession of great power and authority, fear from this ordinary person?
• Life is bad if you’re a blogger in many parts of the world. That can be the simple story of Hoder’s private Calvary.
• The cause for anger or fear in a person of great material authority confronted with information generally –with information as information –is thus never a given, I maintain, but rather is a mystery
• In fact, he stood for the loss of monopoly over information,
• A good place to start is with the formal charges..... “insulting the sanctities”... They speak when there should be silence...It is the speaking that is taboo.
•   It’s the alien voice of the amateur, of the ordinary person, of the public, that is an abomination... This, not from selfish motives, no, not in the least –for the good of humanity.   Their authority rests on the moral order of the world.   Any challenge, however insignificant, isn’t just a potential threat to them but a violation of that order,
• Democratically elected governments have reacted in the same way.   Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is his country’s most popular politician in generations, having comfortably won several national elections.
• When protests broke out in Istanbul over government plans to build a shopping mall on the site of a park, then spread throughout Turkey and acquired a definite anti-Erdogan edge, the Turkish news media ignored the events.
• Erdogan’s minister of interior announced that “provocations on social media”were to be targets of criminal
• people in the news business have converted the economic failure of the daily newspaper into a danger not just to their own livelihoods, but to the fabric of democratic life.   When, for example, Nicholas Kristof brooded on the “decline of traditional news media”which pays his salary, he evoked a dismal future of “polarization and
• Fanning released the first version of Napster in June 1999.   He was 18, an unknown teenager without money or business connections,
• The noise of condemnation by defenders of the music and allied industries was Erdogan-worthy.....Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Pictures Association of America, portrayed the corporate interests he represented as “the backbone of America’s creative community”
• Hilary Rosen, head of the Recording Industry Association of America:   “what Napster is doing…is legally and morally wrong.”
• If Jack Valenti had had the power to convict Shawn Fanning to 19 ½ years
• A Burning Man on Facebook Lights the Way for Political Change in Tunisia
• Bouazizi burned to death in front of a camera.   For as long as digital images hold true, we will watch him explode into flames, still walking, at a nondescript public square.   This image was impossible to absorb without feeling pain and horror.... The photos of Bouazizi’s self-immolation were posted on Facebook, and aroused strong emotions in and out of Tunisia.
• The industrial age depended on chunky blocks of text to influence government and opinion.   The new digital world has preferred the power of the visual.
• most of Al Jazeera’s Tunisia footage came from cell phone
• The point I want to drive home is that there is now massive redundancy in the transmission of information.
• A Google Employee in Dubai Schedules an Egyptian Revolution as a Facebook Event
• A mostly disorganized public toppled a regime which had ruled with unquestioned authority for 23 years.
• virtual invitation to revolution scheduled on Facebook Events.
• I want to move directly to a specific moment:   January 14, 2011, when Ghonim, inspired by events in Tunisia, posted on the “Khaled Said”page a call for protests for January 25, the “Police Day”holiday in Egypt.   Ghonim gave the event its name:   “Revolution Against Torture, Poverty, Corruption, and Unemployment.”  And he created a Facebook Event for it.
• two technical obstacles....One obstacle pertained to the number of Egyptians Ghonim could actually reach.... The other raised the question whether the psychological distance between virtual and real
• Roland Schatz,.. “Critical mass”occurs at between 10 and 20 percent of adoption –the level at which enough diffusion networks become “infected”by the virus of change to make the latter
• It’s simply false to say that the public can’t make the leap between virtual and real politics.   The problem has been posed in terms of online “weak bonds”as against real-life “strong bonds”
• A Very Old Man Shuts Down the Web Then Falls Through the Trap Door of the Information Sphere
• I’m not saying that Ghonim and the internet caused Egypt’s revolution.... one cause out of many.
• I’m also not asserting the primacy of the internet... Primacy goes to that massively redundant information sphere, which has absorbed new and old media alike.
• Hosni Mubarak wished to modernize Egypt.   Modern countries boasted an abundance of TV channels and content.   Mubarak gambled that his regime could control the information pouring out of new channels.
• Ghonim’s raw, emotional performance on Dream TV has been credited with turning the tide decisively in favor of the protesters....... Dream TV... However, compared to state-owned television, this was indirect control.
• Unlike, say, TV or Facebook, the information sphere can’t be blocked by government.... This was demonstrated under almost laboratory conditions in Egypt on Friday, January 28, 2011:... Mobile phone service was disrupted as well.... Demonstrations planned after Friday prayers in many Egyptian cities were the immediate cause of the shutdown.
• Starting with the octogenarian Mubarak, the people who ran the regime had come to power during the industrial age of information.

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... se non hai un modello per filtrarle.

Perché? Due motivi:

1) più caos in cui perdersi;
2) più materiale per puntellare i propri pregiudizi.

Interessante il secondo motivo e le sue conseguenze: quando l' informazione esplode esplode anche il settarismo. Oltretutto esplode anche la possibilità di fare proseliti.

Con l' invenzione della stampa le eresie (che ci sono sempre state) si sono rafforzate e diffuse conducendo lentamente alle guerre di religione del 600, uno dei secoli più terribili.

Quando poi arrivano i modelli i progressi sono spettacolari. Probabilmente la rivoluzione industriale è il frutto proprio della più facile circolazione delle informazioni: gli uomini di sapere potevano connettersi tra loro anziché restare isolati.

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