The New Digital Age

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1. jartJan 2024
   Of course it's going to happen. Read The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt. He talks a lot about how all the information Google records about you is permanent, can never be deleted, and any generation of lawmakers can decide to do whatever they want with it. Upcoming generations are going to want as much data as possible to train AIs, especially as the GPUs needed to do that become more affordable. You know how historians are always talking about what famous dead people wrote in their diaries and personal letters? Don't think for a moment that future generations won't do this to you.
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2. otakucodeJul 2019
   This will be ineffective. Google whitelists many channels by large organizations and they are sheltered from any such reports. If 200k reports came in on the next Microsoft video posted, someone at YouTube might notice, but the video would never be taken down. You should read (as should everyone else) Eric Schmidt's book 'A New Digital Age'. In it he lies out his view. Basically (and obviously this is my perspective, this is the meaning not the language he uses to sell it), because Google is rich, they are Better. The teeming masses of the unwashed must be yolked by their betters. Left to their own devices, the public would destroy themselves and it is the responsibility of Google and other gigacorps to create culture in order to preserve civilization.
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3. otakucodeNov 2017
   This is a pretty good idea. Google has been aggressively anti-competitive in the video space and the US government has made it abundantly clear that they don't care. Losing hundreds of millions a year for a decade just so no competitor could ever even hope to begin building infrastructure for a competitor has been very effective at shutting out all competitors. When traditional means are cut off through bad faith dealing like that, people have to get creative. And after reading 'The New Digital Age' where Schmidt makes his case for Google taking control of all of human culture with no more justification than 'we are rich, therefore better', I more than welcome anyone who stands even a faint chance of taking them down a thousand notches or so.
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4. jonajonMay 2013
   The New Digital Age - Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen

   Why We Do What We Do - Edward Deci

   The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle

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5. stevenjgarnerNov 2021
   When human knowledge starts doubling instantly or at most every few seconds .... THAT is a singularity. In 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every 100 years. By the end of 1945, the rate was every 25 years. The “Knowledge Doubling Curve”, as it’s commonly known, was created by Buckminster Fuller in 1982. From an article on Industry Tap written by David Schilling, the host went on to say that not only is human knowledge, on average, doubling every 13 months, we are quickly on our way, with the help of the Internet, to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours. If you want to take this even further down the preverbial road, you combine this with Ray Kurzweil’s (Head of Google Artificial Intelligence) “singularity” theory and Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s ideas which are discussed in their book, “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business” and you have some serious changes to technology, human intelligence and business coming down the pike whether you like it or not - https://lodestarsolutions.com/keeping-up-with-the-surge-of-i...
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6. jartNov 2020
   That's pretty much what Eric Schmidt talks about in The New Digital Age. He says that the technical requirements for building reliable systems at scale makes information tricky to impossible to delete. He also says the same thing you said, which is that the implication of data being permanent is that, even if privacy is respected by these companies today, future generations might hold the complete opposite values and could change the laws. What's to stop the cloud natives from making all your emails and search history public after you die? Is it really so difficult to believe, if we consider how common it is for the private letters of important historical figures to be published?
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