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Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html

Better Than Free [Translations: Belarusian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying.

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The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours. We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours. In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction, using 3D printers to build an entire house in 20 hours. In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design / computer-aided manufacturing). 3D models are designed on a computer and then manufactured using CNC Machines or 3D printers. The design is manufactured into a physical object automatically, with instruction from 3D computer model to physical object without human interface.

The Internet is not a Surveillance State… In his March 16, 2013 opinion column on CNN.com, Bruce Schneier called the Internet a “surveillance state”. In the piece, Schneier complains that the Internet now serves as a platform which enables massive and pervasive surveillance by the State. State sponsored and ordained surveillance, however, is not synonymous with the Internet. Schneier’s use of the word ‘state’ is ill-advised, his goading conclusion thereby misses the mark.

Nanoscribe Will Sell a Micro 3-D Printer That Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe. While 3-D printing of toys, iPhone covers, and jewelry continues to grab headlines (see “The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers”), much of 3-D printing’s impact could be at a much smaller scale. Micrometer-scale printing has shown promise for making medical and electronic devices. Thiel says it should be possible to speed up his company’s microprinting technique even more in the future. Nanoscribe plans to start selling its machine in the second half of this year.

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Je me posais les mêmes questions mais il y a un énorme filtre à l'entrée. Les seuls personnes qui vont participer sont celles capables de participer techniquement, que ce soit du point de vue intellectuel ou du point de vue légal. Je ne sais pas combien de gens ça fait du coup mais on perd facilement un ou deux ordres de grandeurs. by baptistecouly Oct 16

Excellent. J'ai l'impression que les coûts de mise en place de ce système seraient ridicules mais j'ai du mal à me représenter l'organisation qu'il faudrait construire. Pour linux, il y avait Torvalds qui s'occupait des merge, mais quid des organisations vraiment gigantesques ?? Comment procéder sans découpage du périmètre fonctionnel ? Si un ensemble inconnu d'acteurs peuvent s'exprimer sur un sujet, comment faire naitre le consensus ? by ferdma Oct 16

Un "absolutely must-see". C'est la première fois que je vois un exemple concret d'application de l'open-source/l'informatique/l'interwebz à un problème de gouvernement (le processus législatif) et que je n'ai pas envie de crier bullshit. by baptistecouly Oct 7

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