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What Was Net  •   What Is the net now?  •   What Will the net Become?

 

Cyber Space The 9th Wonder of the World
On average, more than a billion new pages are added to it every day.

CHANGE THE WORLD

"Nations have well established rules of the game on land, sea, air and in outer space," it said. "There is a significant lack of such rules in the fifth common domain -- cyberspace." ~ John Edwin Mroz EWI

The Chinese invention of moveable type, is credited to Bi Sheng in the year 1045 AD way before Guttenberg ever printed a bible, and the internet which really started with TCP/IP in 1983 is far and away more impressive in changing the world than moveable type was for it's time.

The Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends. The Internet's value is founded in its technical architecture.

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The Internet is more than just a technology. It is a domain—similar to the domains of land, air, sea and space, but with its own distinct challenges. The cyber domain has national and international dimensions that include industry, trade, intellectual property, security, technology, culture, policy, and diplomacy. It includes all parts of the converged network, from computer networks to satellite communications, and is not bound by international borders.

Remember one other simple fact:

"The Internet is a way for all the things that call themselves networks to coexist and work together. It's an inter-network. Literally. What makes the Net inter is the fact that it's just a protocol — the Internet Protocol, to be exact. A protocol is an agreement about how things work together."

Fabulous Internet Tutorial For Beginners where you will how to click and scroll to rock'n roll around the net, please share this with your local librarian.

How to Teach Non Fear Based Internet Curriculum.

Net Generation, was born in the 1980s, the iGeneration, was born in the '90s. Each group of children has been uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development. The iGeneration - spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks. The newest generations, unlike their older peers, will expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and won't have the patience for anything less. Can kids focus on anything anymore? Neither generation understands the cloud mirror and privacy. More re: Art

 

INTERNET
WHAT IT WAS

The Internet was developed in the 1960s by DARPA, actually, with 4 nodes and 4 computers by 1971, used by academic researchers in the USA. Dial up speed was only Kilobits. In 1998 there were about 50 million users supported by 25 million servers and ICANN was created. In 1979 10 MB of disk storage cost $1,000.oo.

11/5/09 My friend Marcus Ranum @TEDxMidAtlantic explains how security evolved from simple to correct programming and that old software needs to die to be replaced by good programming.

INTERNET
WHAT IT IS

 

Cyberspace is being shaped. The tectonic plates of cyberspace are shifting.

Conversation Overload: Conversations in my email, yet today I have conversations everywhere else like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs SMS messages, Voicemail and Google Plus. And there are Info overload: aggregators who gather headlines to stories which is NOT the same as people who rewrite other people's stories.

Loving the Cyber Bomb? Pentagon's unquenchable thirst for ever-deadlier weapons systems--cyber, or otherwise. The United States is already engaged in hostile cyber operations against their geopolitical rivals--and allies--and have been doing so since the 1990s, Pentagon's propaganda blitz On May 31, 2011 The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Pentagon now asserts "that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force." Also on May 31, The Washington Post reported that America's shadow warriors have "developed a list of cyber-weapons and tools, including viruses that can sabotage an adversary's critical networks, to streamline how the United States engages in computer warfare." That "classified list of capabilities has been in use for several months," with the approval of "other agencies, including the CIA." This "sensitive program ... forms part of the Pentagon's set of approved weapons or 'fires' that can be employed against an enemy." The "UK is developing a cyber-weapons programme that will give ministers an attacking capability to help counter growing threats to national security from cyberspace." Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey told The Guardian that "action in cyberspace will form part of the future battlefield" and will become "an integral part of the country's armoury." Bloomberg News reported back in 2008, both Lockheed Martin and Boeing "are deploying forces and resources to a new battlefield: cyberspace." Bloomberg averred that military contractors and the wider defense industry are "eager to capture a share of a market that may reach $11 billion in 2013," and "have formed new business units to tap increased spending to protect U.S. government computers from attack." The military needs "presidential authorization to penetrate a foreign computer network and leave a cyber-virus that can be activated later." When it comes to espionage or other activities loudly denounced as illegal intrusions into the sacrosanct world of government and corporate crime and corruption, the "military does not need such approval." Learn about NSA's Echelon program in a 1997. "Military cyber-warriors can also, without presidential authorization, leave beacons to mark spots for later targeting by viruses," an "unnamed military official".

The 100% Scared Doctrine The Ever-Expanding National Security Complex

OpenNet Initiative documents emerging trends and technologies as governments around the world seek to shape, limit, and control the Internet.
As the global Internet expands in reach and ability to influence, governments are pursuing strategies to establish controls and policing over this domain consistent with national laws and values. These tendencies are evident in democratic as well as authoritarian states.
Government intervention has become more pronounced and pervasive and censorship and surveillance practices are on the rise. First-generation controls, typified by Chinas Great Firewall, are being replaced by more sophisticated techniques that go beyond mere denial of information and aim to normalize (or even legalize) a climate of control. These next-generation techniques include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, surveillance at key points of the Internets infrastructure, take-down notices, and stringent terms-of-usage policies.

STATS: Today there are an estimated 542 million servers and about 1.3 billion users. Around 3 billion mobile phones, 15% are internet enabled adding 450 million devices to the net, and 1 billion personal computers, Voice over IP, video conferencing, audio, and video content, scientific databases. In 2008 2 TB of disk storage cost $600.oo. (in 1979 2 TB cost $200 million)

The danger of allowing an advertising company to control the index of human knowledge is too obvious to ignore. Google's universal index is the shared heritage of humanity. There is no system for organising knowledge that does not carry with it social, political and cultural consequences. Nor is an entirely unbiased organising principle possible. The juxtaposition of advertisements with wisdom neutralises the latter. The prevalence of commercial messages traps us in the marketplace. No wonder it has become nearly impossible to imagine a world without consumerism. Advertising has become the distorting frame through which we view the world.

Where is the Market for Online Privacy?

The internet was never designed with security in mind or to protect your privacy. That's because the overriding economic force that created the free and open commercial Internet – the predominant Silicon Valley venture capital/IPO value creation model – was and remains largely antithetical to protecting online privacy. It's basic economics.
What is the essential critical element of achieving audience/user scale fastest? Free. No direct cost to the user fuels fastest, frictionless, viral adoption. This free economic model presupposes online advertising as an eventual monetization mechanism and shuns products and services directly paid for by the user because their inherent time-to-market is too slow and their upfront sunk cost of sales and customer service is too high for this predominant value creation model.
Security, Privacy and Trust
Information Wants To Be Free Model which existed when only the academics who made the net and ruled the net called it home ... before the commercial interests were allowed online who then took it and used it for one thing only... to make them rich.
According to the commercial tyrants this means that in order to make the web profitable, it has to be based on an advertising model rather than a subscription model.
YOU and your User leverage/consumer power in the market equation. What did you say? You don't want to be that loser sitting alone in your own world without friends? You are the problem. You can't keep your privacy on the web because YOU are addicted to all the free stuff it has to offer, So Get off Facebook Now. An online business is designed to preclude or limit the viability of a significant competitive alternative. This model claims users have privacy choices, when they know users have no where else to go so they don't have to protect your privacy. 
Just because something is free doesn't mean it doesn't have a cost.

"The very specific market failure here is twofold. First, extremely lax enforcement of the FTC Section 5 law against deceptive business practices, created market failure here because users were systematically denied fair representation in the marketplace, which is the first and most important line of defense against consumer fraud. Without effective fair-representation law enforcement, the consumer incorrectly assumes the online businesses in question are being forthright. Second, dysfunctional Federal privacy law — that only protects privacy expectations offline and not online — creates market failure as well, because users have minimal market control over the market for their online personal data. What is needed is new privacy legislation that is a consumer-driven, technology/competition-neutral privacy framework that works online and offline.
Simply, what is needed here to correct this specific market failure, is for law enforcement to ensure online businesses fairly represent their privacy and financial conflicts of interest to consumers/users so they can better protect themselves, and for Congress to harmonize Federal privacy law to close the huge Internet loophole in privacy law so that users enjoy the same expected privacy protections online that they do offline." ~ Scott Cleland

Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”, lists the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using “software to hide encrypted data in digital photos” or other media. In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone “overly concerned about privacy” or attempting to “shield the screen from view of others” should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.
Logging into an account associated with a residential internet service provider (such as Comcast or AOL), an activity that could simply indicate that you are on a trip, is also considered a suspicious activity. Viewing any content related to “military tactics” including manuals or “revolutionary literature” is also considered a potential indicator of terrorist activity. This would mean that viewing a number of websites, including the one you are on right now, could be construed by a hapless employee as an highly suspicious activity potentially linking you to terrorism.
The “Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities” contained in the flyer are not to be construed alone as a sign of terrorist activity and the document notes that “just because someone’s speech, actions, beliefs, appearance, or way of life is different; it does not mean that he or she is suspicious.” However, many of the activities described in the document are basic practices of any individual concerned with security or privacy online. The use of PGP, VPNs, Tor or any of the many other technologies for anonymity and privacy online are directly targeted by the flyer, which is distributed to businesses in an effort to promote the reporting of these activities. < - >

The Culture Wars:
HOLLYWOOD - RIAA, MPAA vs. WE THE PEOPLE
Misuse of intellectual property enforcement tools are everywhere, and they threaten everyone. The content industry has made itself into the villain. They are an occupying power, obeyed at gunpoint, despised for its ham-handed excesses and resisted from every dark corner. Hollywood, refused to respect technology and its customers by trying to keep a dead business model. The MPAA remind Congress of their source of funding for Democratic candidates, and that it would not tolerate defections. Game Over - Citizens Win.

INTERNET
WHAT IT WILL BE

 

2009 - What most Americans probably don't know is that over the last few years the situation has totally reversed. As the Internet has evolved — in particular, as dial-up has given way to broadband connections using DSL, cable and other high-speed links — it's the United States that has fallen behind.
The numbers are startling. As recently as 2001, the percentage of the population with high-speed access in Japan and Germany was only half that in the United States. In France it was less than a quarter. By the end of 2006, however, all three countries had more broadband subscribers per 100 people than we did.
Even more striking is the fact that our “high speed” connections are painfully slow by other countries' standards. According to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, French broadband connections are, on average, more than three times as fast as ours. Japanese connections are a dozen times faster. Oh, and access is much cheaper in both countries than it is here.

Shift Happens Did You Know 4.0

There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act.
From Dial up to Deep Space
DTN: Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking
The Interplanetary Internet: networking technology for space that allows interoperable networking between spacecraft of earth origin and devices on the internet. This will be standardized for usy by any of the world's space agencies. Spacecraft from any country will be interoperable each other.

Future Trends in Computing civilization as we've known it is over.

 

Loss of Information

 

 

Application software does not last 1000 years. Unless it is preserved we loose our ability to interpret digital content. You won't be able to open, format, or interpret digital content. We need to preserve the software and operating systems even when the company goes out of business.
Access to the Internet is a well-defined term, and is what cable and fiber based companies offer today for a monthly  subscription fee. The Internet itself an all-encompassing term, which means best efforts delivery of packets to every reachable  destination on the Internet.
Merely being able to access part of the World Wide Web is not access to the Internet. It is simply access to part of the World Wide Web. See: http://www.dpsproject.org for a very clear and simple definition of this important issue in a legal context.

 

CARBON FOOTPRINT

 

Emails especially those with attachments still use energy and create greenhouse gas emissions, even if you don't print them. Last month, Yeager told the BBC that sending an email attachment of 4.7 megabytes—the equivalent of about 4 photos taken on a point-and-shoot digital camera—creates as much greenhouse gas as boiling your tea kettle 17.5 times. Avoid sending giant attachments if you can. "In the last five or ten years a lot of people have added these 'think before you print' signatures to their emails," says Yeager. "Well we should all have 'think before you attach.'" Share your data without attachments: Instead of sending photos directly to all your friends and family members, upload them to central locations like Flickr or Facebook. "It's much more efficient to send a link to a place where everything is stored," says Yeager. For audio and video files, I often use hosting sites like Sendspace or MediaFire.  

 

Always remember:

 

The power of online search engines and social networks to control exactly how we get information. Be aware of the politics of personalization and methods used to ensure that you won't end up in a search engine ghetto.

The Filter Bubble:Deleting Web History from your Google Account will erase all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future. BUT If you've disabled search customizations, you'll need to disable it again after clearing your browser cookies; clearing your Google cookie turns on history-based customizations.

A search engine reflects the values and priorities of the engineers who design the algorithms. But not all Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) are equal. How Google Works graphic.

FIND SEARCH TOOLS
that are focused in a subject discipline as well as the general ones is a major need of researchers in every major subject discipline.

September 19, 2008 When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder
University Inc. Campus Commercialization and The CEO Salary. Campus Commercialization University Small Business Patent Procedures Act.

Message Overload Taking Toll on Workers 5/20/98

Author: Kirstin Downey Grimsley Issue: Lifestyle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-05/20/064l-052098-idx.html
Description: With so many time- and labor-saving devices (such as the fax, voice-mail, email, corporate intranet, standard, cell and car phone, the beeper and pager) available for our convenience it is no wonder that we are beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed. A workplace study conducted by the Gallup Organization and Calif.-based Institute for the Future found that workers are being "bombarded by an avalanche of information" and are starting to "cry for a respite from the intrusions." The study, released yesterday, found that the 1,035 employees that were surveyed and observed at work received an average of 190 messages a day, most requiring some form of response. Employees said that they were starting their work day earlier and staying later in an effort to keep up. While many experts believe that the growth of information is causing people to work smarter and faster -- several academic studies have reached different conclusions when it comes to the effect on productivity "People are treated like they are machines that are on all the time," said economist Paula Rayman, director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute that also has interviewed workers on this subject. "All these workers wanted 'sacred time' -- time during the day with no interruptions...You absolutely need uninterrupted time to get your work done. If you are constantly bombarded with messages, you never get your real work done."