By Arjen Kamphuis (@ArjenKamphuis)
Arjen started off by explaining why he thinks that software is important. About as important as the first book press. The creation of synthetic life earlier this has reduced the problem of life to a software problem, a very complex software problem, but a software problem non-the-less.
One day, after Arjen noticed that the main Dutch railway website could only be used with Internet Explorer he decided to write the railway and several Dutch politician, he got requested to put in a proposal for a Dutch law pushing open source software as a government policy. Since the Dutch government does 12% of Dutch software spending, they should lead by example. This bill got passed, partly because the day before it got known that Microsoft had a nett. margin of 92% on Windows.
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By Eleanor Saitta (@dymaxion)
Resistance is futile, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from myxi photostream
Modern city dwellers are being tracked in hundreds of ways. From cell phone surveillance to DNS tracking.
Eleanor illustrates the vast numbers of records generated by Joe Sixpack as he travels from his home to his desk in the office. You have been awake all of 2 hours and at least 30 government agencies and double that amount of commercial agencies have stored information about you.
There are a few problems around surveillance:
- Secondary uses
- Buying and sharing data
- Sunk cost
- Opportunity leads to abuse
- Equality versus aggregation
A typical telco gets about one location request per 10 subscribers, excluding 911, secret service and law enforcement requests.
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By Nick Far (@NickF4rr
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Future 3.0 is about the patterns that will emerge and reemerge in the future.
Future 1.0 is crude, this the beggining of the internet or the beginning of domestic agriculture, it is signified by:
- Low growth
- Nutral
- Decentralized
- Direct
Future 2.0 is an intermediate phase (think web 2.0 or the industrial revolution):
- Refined
- Centralized
- Rapid
- Massive
Future 3.0 is entropic (it is about to happen):
- Sustainable
- Natural
- Decentralized
- Direct
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By Nick Farr (@Nickf4rr)
Nick’s talk is about the fundamental and radical shift that would happen if one day, all of a sudden, hackers in stead of politicians ran politics.
There are a few assumptions that are the basis for his talk:
- Government is a complex discrete system led by politicians who guide bureaucrats
- Hackers have a wide range of political beliefs
- Critique of current political state
- NOT a “HOWTO” for hacker government
- NOT a critique of hackers currently taking part in government
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