Captives of the Cloud: Part I
We are the voluntary prisoners of the cloud; we are being watched over by governments we did not elect.
Wael Ghonim, Google’s Egyptian executive, said: “If you want to liberate a society just give them the internet.”1 But how does one liberate a society that already has the internet? In a society permanently connected through pervasive broadband networks, the shared internet is, bit by bit and piece by piece, overshadowed by the “cloud.”
more…
