{"id":59996,"date":"2017-07-10T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59996"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:41:44","slug":"the-internets-future-is-more-fragile-than-ever-says-one-of-its-inventors-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/07\/10\/the-internets-future-is-more-fragile-than-ever-says-one-of-its-inventors-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet\u2019s future is more fragile than ever, says one of its inventors [Captain]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet\u2019s future is more fragile than ever, says one of its inventors<\/strong><\/a> — from fastcompany.com by Sean Captain
\nVint Cerf, the co-creator of tech that makes the internet work, worries about hacking, fake news, autonomous software, and perishable digital history.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The term \u201cdigital literacy\u201d is often referred to as if you can use a spreadsheet or a text editor. But I think digital literacy is closer to looking both ways before you cross the street. It\u2019s a warning to think about what you\u2019re seeing, what you\u2019re hearing, what you\u2019re doing, and thinking critically about what to accept and reject . . . Because in the absence of this kind of critical thinking, it\u2019s easy to see how the phenomena that we\u2019re just now labeling fake news, alternative facts [can come about]. These [problems] are showing up, and they\u2019re reinforced in social media.
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\nWhat are the criteria that we should apply to devices that are animated by software, and which we rely upon without intervention? And this is the point where autonomous software becomes a concern, because we turn over functionality to a piece of code. And dramatic examples of that are self-driving cars . . . Basically you\u2019re relying on software doing the right things, and if it doesn\u2019t do the right thing, you have very little to say about it.<\/p>\n

I feel like we\u2019re moving into a kind of fragile future right now that we should be much more thoughtful about improving, that is to say making more robust.<\/p>\n

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Imagine a house that stops working when the internet connection goes away. That\u2019s not acceptable.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Internet\u2019s future is more fragile than ever, says one of its inventors — from fastcompany.com by Sean Captain Vint Cerf, the co-creator of tech that makes the internet work, worries about hacking, fake news, autonomous software, and perishable digital history. Excerpts: The term \u201cdigital literacy\u201d is often referred to as if you can use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,403,37,35,95,419,180,482,55,64,511,353,480,454,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-ethics","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-internet","category-it-in-he","category-machine-to-machine-communications","category-moralsvalues","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59998,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59996\/revisions\/59998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}