Dr. Marc Torrens, @marctorrens

IS DEMOCRACY IN DANGER?

1989 by Tim Berners-Lee

“The Internet is the f i rst th ing that humanity has bui l t that humanity doesn't understand , the largest exper iment in anarchy that we have ever had.” Eric Schmidt

World Wide Web

WEB 1.0 , read-only 1996

CORPORATE WEB

250k

published content

user generated contend

45M: <1%

SOCIAL WEB

WEB 2.0 , read-write 2006

80M

1B: 17%

INTELLIGENT WEB

WEB 3.0 2016

800M

3,4B: 46%

INTELLIGENCE!70%

INTERNET OF THINGS

WHAT’S COMING NOW?

Animate and inanimate objects on earth will be generating data.

WHAT IS BIG DATA?

4 Vs

VARIETY DIFFERENT

FORMS OF DATA

VERACITY UNCERTAINTY

OF DATA

VELOCITY ANALYSIS

OF STREAMING DATA

VOLUME SCALE OF DATA

HOW BIG IS BIG DATA?

HISTORY OF HUMANITY 2016

=

HOW BIG IS BIG DATA?

4 ZETTABYTES

TODAY 2020

40 ZETTABYTES

HOW EXPOSED ARE WE TO INFORMATION?

INFORMATION IN A LIFETIME OF AN AVERAGE

PERSON IN THE XX CENTURY

=

SO… THIS IS GOOD FOR DEMOCRACY , RIGHT?

This is GREAT because…

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m MORE INFORMATION

but… is it REALLY true?

BETTER DECISONS

BETTER DEMOCRACY

INFORMATION ≈ DEMOCRACY

THE PARADOX OF CHOICE

THE PARADOX OF CHOICE

INFORMATION

THE PARADOX OF CHOICE

ATTENTION PER BIT

THE PARADOX OF CHOICE

IMPORTANCE OF FILTERING

SEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Chris Anderson

We are leaving the age of information and entering the age of recommendation.

INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION

SEARCH DISCOVERY

CNN Money, ”The race to create a ´smart´ google”

“The web, they say, is leaving the era of search and entering one of discovery. What is the

difference? Search is what you do when you’re looking for something. Discovery is when

something wonderful that you did not know existed, or did not know how to ask for, finds you”.

SO… ALGORITHMS ARE DISCOVERING AND PERSONALIZING CONTENT FOR US!

BAD NEWS… we are living in our own bubble!

THE FILTER BUBBLE by El i Par iser

THE FILTER BUBBLE by El i Par iser

THE FILTER BUBBLE by El i Par iser

THE FILTER BUBBLE by El i Par iser

THE FILTER BUBBLE by El i Par iser

IMPORTANT

UNCOMFORTABLE

CHALLENGING

OTHER POINTS OF VIEW

RELEVANT

“A squire l dying in your back yard may be more re levant to your interests r ight n o w t h a n p e o p l e dying in Afr ica”

by Mark Zuckerberg

ECHO CHAMBER EFFECT ≈ POLARIZATION

•Digital Prison for our thinking•Liberal Paternalism (top - down)• “totalitariam regime with a rosy cover?”

•no transparency•no ethical constraints

BIG NUDGING

ONE EXTREME CASE…

China Brain Project • Loans • Education • Health • Justice • …

THE SINGULARITY (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)

ELON MUSK BILL GATES

STEVE WOSNIAK STEPHEN HAWKING

…the most serious DANGER to society…

•Moore’s Law (18 months)•Big Data (12 months)•General Artificial Intelligence

BEST OR WORST?

DEMOCRACY 2.0 FEUADLISM 2.0

THANK YOU!