The famous social networking website Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/) has created fear by revealing that when a website user shares some pictures, videos or other contents he looses the control of this information. Even if he supress this data by himself, other copies subsist and could reappear one day. Recently an applicant have found himself refused a job because the potential employer had come across compromising pictures on his facebook page. Be careful with “Fesses-Book” !
For a long time we have considered Internet as a world where everything is changeable, where an event or a feeling is always impermanent. There is nothing more specious than this affirmation. On the contrary the web is like a faceplate where everything stays engraved for decades or centuries, maybe for eternity...No one can say. Internet is an immovable memory which accumulates data, and anyone is able to get to this data in only one click. Since their birth, the technologies of information gradually reveals their uses and specifications, often very surprising. We thought they allowed reliable communications, and now we realize that they reveal our intimity to everybody. We thought that they would protect people against oppression and dictatorship. But they are often in politicians’ and brands’ service. Yesterday Internet was liberal and liberating, tomorrow it would further authoritarianism and become a powerful mean to supervise and control people.
Sciences and technologies are neither good nor bad, it depends on how we use them. This example shows us that we are responsible for what we created.
For a long time we have considered Internet as a world where everything is changeable, where an event or a feeling is always impermanent. There is nothing more specious than this affirmation. On the contrary the web is like a faceplate where everything stays engraved for decades or centuries, maybe for eternity...No one can say. Internet is an immovable memory which accumulates data, and anyone is able to get to this data in only one click. Since their birth, the technologies of information gradually reveals their uses and specifications, often very surprising. We thought they allowed reliable communications, and now we realize that they reveal our intimity to everybody. We thought that they would protect people against oppression and dictatorship. But they are often in politicians’ and brands’ service. Yesterday Internet was liberal and liberating, tomorrow it would further authoritarianism and become a powerful mean to supervise and control people.
Sciences and technologies are neither good nor bad, it depends on how we use them. This example shows us that we are responsible for what we created.
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