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Internet, Year Zero

on YouTube 37m
Talkat apidays Paris 2021 · 2021-12-07..12-09· [computing-history]

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name:Jonathan Bourguignon
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video:https://youtu.be/kyCEn5qTeao
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summary

Argument that cybernetics — measuring everything, feeding signals to machines — turns utopian internet into systems of control, illustrated by Cambridge Analytica as cybernetic experiment and by AI that models behavior without causal explanations. Claims that NFTs and DeFi recreate exclusion and inequality (staking rewards concentrate wealth), that DAOs implement one token one vote which can turn neighborhoods into gated communities, that cloud honeypots centralize power, and that China shows how a coherent cyberspace is built — tech choices shape politics.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 12:233RD REICH THEORY OF CONTROL
  3. 15:03AFTER TECHNO-UTOPIA: ONE DECENTRALIZED WORLD
  4. 19:18DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATIONS (DAOS)

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