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The Future Internet Is Not So Free Or Open

posted by n1 on Friday July 04 2014, @01:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-was-better-in-my-day dept.

mendax writes:

NPR is reporting the results of a Pew study of more than 1,400 tech industry leaders and academics indicate their belief that the Internet of the near future will be neither as free nor as open as it is now.

The factors cited by those surveyed include:

  1. Actions by nation-states to maintain security and political control will lead to more blocking, filtering, segmentation, and balkanization of the Internet.
  2. Trust will evaporate in the wake of revelations about government and corporate surveillance and likely greater surveillance in the future.
  3. Commercial pressures affecting everything from Internet architecture to the flow of information will endanger the open structure of online life.
  4. Efforts to fix the TMI (too much information) problem might over-compensate and actually thwart content sharing.

This is also an opportunity for an "Ask Soylent" question so here goes: What do you think the future Internet, say 10 years from now, holds?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by hendrikboom on Friday July 04 2014, @05:30PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 04 2014, @05:30PM (#64254) Homepage Journal

    It doesn't bother me that much that there *are* walled gardens. It's that it's getting harder and harder to avoid them, what with hardware being sold with locked bootloaders and the like.

    I go into my local computer store, and it's getting hard to find a machine that isn't already precompromised. That used to be easy. Forget about getting a tablet that I can just install Debian on. I'm still fond of my Nokia N800, which does at least provide root access.

    Anyone know where I can get an unlocked ARM laptop, for example?

    -- hendrik

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday July 06 2014, @07:45PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Sunday July 06 2014, @07:45PM (#64934) Homepage
    It may not be unlocked, but I've heard frmo some linux-loving friends that you can stick whatever linux you want on the chromebooks.

    +1 for old nokias. I have a pile of n900's so high I think I'll be still using them until well after GSM is obsolete. (I use it more as a computer than as a phone.)
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