Notes on #Digital Vertigo, by @ajkeen
What does privacy and/or obscurity mean in the digital age? If someone has lots of data about you, do they have "you", or do they actually have less of you then before the data age? to what extent is data a reflection of our self?
Are there only two options as A argues: allow Web 3.0 to usurp you or don't allow it? If that is the case, we are in trouble because not allowing is really no longer an option (if it ever was). What are the other possibilities?
Are we all "social animals" and, what does that really even mean?
Back at the turn of the 20th century, Georg Simmel stated that the biggest problem in modern life is the individual to preserve his/her autonomy in the swirl of social forces. the internet does not demand disclosure and what is disclosed is very selective so I'm not sure to what extent it makes us publicly observed. Parts of us are observed and this could violate our civil liberties, but I'm not sure that it violates our sense of self.
Are there only two options as A argues: allow Web 3.0 to usurp you or don't allow it? If that is the case, we are in trouble because not allowing is really no longer an option (if it ever was). What are the other possibilities?
Are we all "social animals" and, what does that really even mean?
Back at the turn of the 20th century, Georg Simmel stated that the biggest problem in modern life is the individual to preserve his/her autonomy in the swirl of social forces. the internet does not demand disclosure and what is disclosed is very selective so I'm not sure to what extent it makes us publicly observed. Parts of us are observed and this could violate our civil liberties, but I'm not sure that it violates our sense of self.
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