Obama = Steve Jobs

“Is the distribution and dissemination of ideas sufficient to foster and create a social revolution?” “The Internet is nothing more than binary code”

Although the author of this article clearly understands that the Internet is important, he may be kicking himself today as he (and many, many others), were downright wrong as they underestimated in their predictions of what the internet was capable of. But besides the outdated techno information from this article, the principals remain the same, and it gives us a transformation identity that shows what we as people and users want to use the internet for.

“The ultimate corporate goal may be to develop a cultural structure that assists producers of products to know what consumers want before the consumers even know. When private groups take control of public institutions, individual constitutional rights no longer apply”

The important thing to note here is that the private institutions have taken control of the internet completely, and were able to do this because of the way they were able to convince the users. Facebook has convinced us that it is cool to have more friends, in turn addicting us to the site and giving us a base that we didn’t even know we needed- but everyone else is doing it. They are able to use all of our information and violate privacy because they simply don’t have any rules against it- we let them, but we didn’t really KNOW we let them. An article from Advertising Age explains some of the tricky practices that go on behind the scenes, that make us users think certain things are cool, or the new ‘trend,’ even though it’s skewed. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-14565085/ALL-HAIL-OUR-DIGITAL-OVERLORDS.html When dealing with the new mobile apps, there is only one government overlord that owns the rights to everyones souls (aka their iphone)- Apple. An quote from Apple states, "Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or targeted group in harm's way," This sounds an awful lot like a governing rule, and it is. Any company or individual that wants to put out an app- must go through Apple. This structure seems to have taken over the government since this article. Although the government has some control, for example, Obama’s new internet governing law that was proposed in 2010- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2022653,00.html Although this attempts to control the internet, it doesn’t hold a dime to the rest of the marketplace that is owned and controlled by Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo and other e-giants