[NetBehaviour] Captives of the Cloud: Part I.

[James Morris]

On 09/04/13 netbehaviour <netbehaviour at furtherfield.org> wrote:
>Captives of the Cloud: Part I.
>
>By Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk
>
>We are the voluntary prisoners of the cloud; we are being watched over 
>by governments we did not elect.
>
>Wael Ghonim, Google’s Egyptian executive, said: “If you want to
>liberate a society just give them the internet.”1 But how does one
>liberate a society that already has the internet? In a society
>permanently connected through pervasive broadband networks, the shared
>internet is, bit by bit and piece by piece, overshadowed by the
>“cloud.”
>
>http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/


Well worth reading, both parts, and accessible language.