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In this episode of the Evolver Network podcast, we hear from Dor Konforty, founder and CEO of Synereo, a new decentralized social network where the people who use it, own it. With technologies like Synereo, people can meet each others’ needs and collaborate directly, without the need for megalithic companies that profit off our information exchanges. 
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This excerpt has been reprinted with permission from 1995: The Year the Future Began¸ by W. Joseph Campbell and published by the University of California Press, 2015.
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On 18 November, 2014 Sir Tim Berners Lee, the father of the internet, discussed the future of the internet with EIF members & friends, looking at the threats to the web’s wide-open spaces and addressing the most important question: what web do we want?
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While health and education didn't change as much as experts thought, art surpassed expectations with new art forms, distributions channels and project collaboration.
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It has been 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web. Over the past two and a half decades we have experienced tremendous changes in how we share, access and consume information across the world's most powerful communication vehicle.
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Over the last few years several trends have begun to take shape, among them has been the transformation of the Internet as a form of basic content or information delivery to a fundamental social system at the heart of modern society. SnapChat is just one example among many recent viral startup success stories. A quick stroll down any street, in any major city, and you’ll see the Internet has already become woven into modern life. Yet this convergence of our physical and digital realities barely scratches the surface of the opportunities it holds for us.
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Max interviews futurist, IT architect and Free Software advocate Arjen Kamphuis about the internet in a post-re-architected NSA world in which the free network is disintegrating, but against which the likes of Google, Oracle and Microsoft are leveraged. They add up the costs to US corporations in lost revenue as nations across Europe and Latin America divorce themselves from industrial espionage on an industrial scale from America.
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On the Internet, we’ve reached a tipping point where more than 50% of all Internet traffic is no longer generated by humans – instead, it's generated by a motley mix of search engine spiders, bots, scrapers, scammers, hackers and, yes, spies. We are no longer talking about the Internet, we are talking about the Bot Net – a “bot-mediated reality” where algorithms and bots influence where we go, how long we spend there and with whom we communicate. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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As literally everything becomes connected, we'll stop thinking of the Internet as something that exists on a computer or phone.
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Concerns are growing that the supposedly benign philosophy behind the new wave of internet star names such as Airbnb and Uber simply disguises a rapacious business model, writes Charles Arthur
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In 1976, Daniel Bell published a book called "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism." Bell argued that capitalism undermines itself because it nurtures a population of ever more self-gratifying consumers. These people may start out as industrious, but they soon get addicted to affluence, spending, credit and pleasure and stop being the sort of hard workers capitalism requires. Bell was right that there's a contradiction at the heart of capitalism, but he got its nature slightly wrong. Affluent, consumerist capitalists still work hard. Just look around.
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"The greatest social change between now and 2025 will be to raise the educational standards for people regardless of their locale. The Internet has already proven to be a great educational tool ... . Wikipedia allows individuals to share their collective wisdom ... . Also the increased use of Massive Open Online Courses will allow brilliant educators to share their messages to global audiences." - See more at: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/The-Internet-and-the-Web-in-2025-80253.html#sthash.E1voiXK6.dpuf
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Rather than writing about the market and the industry at the level of specifics, I have tried to take a more probing, macroscopic point of view and assemble my thoughts on what it is that has recently been giving me an uneasy feeling. At the start of 2013, I had a sense - it was almost a conviction - that there were changes under way throughout the world that were far wider in scope and far more momentous than I had anticipated. Perhaps I only feel that way because my perspective has changed as a result of seeing various things. I didn't have an opportunity to organize my ideas in writing before, but over the New Year's holidays I had some time to put my thoughts together. These are entirely my personal views.
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Security experts have foreseen the future of cybercrime, and it's exceedingly grim. A report out today from the web security firm IID (Internet Identity) predicts that within the next two years we'll see the first person murdered through a "smart" object, the downfall of both Bitcoin and Tor, and other equally bleak examples of the dark side of technology's future.
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Post the NSA revelations, we will debate how to balance privacy, publicness and security on the web
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