On a languid afternoon, I'm jotting down some chatter about an article I clicked on through a newsletter after being drawn in by a striking keyword.
Data Democracy and MyData(link) (published: 2019.02.12) — I came across this article through the IITP newsletter.
Online independence? Electronic Democracy(link) is an issue I've personally considered important since the year before last.
It might sound like brain-fiction ;D but perhaps this is a moment when we need a second citizens' revolution.
We do not own the data we record and accumulate as we please. Not only are we not the beneficiaries of the profits generated from it — we are actually paying for them. Offline, we live under democracy and a free-market system, but online the reality is different. It's similar in context to how, in the era of class systems, people couldn't recognize or raise issues about their own class. Broadly speaking, this irony was produced by neoliberal economics. It's more closed off than communism or classism, and structured such that it inevitably operates under the intent of dominant powers.
Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee)(link) , the one who first created? the internet, said something in the same context, and is also developing a new model of the web to solve the issue(link) .
The project is called Solid. It's an intriguing new project at MIT led by Professor Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Its goal is to fundamentally change how today's web applications work, thereby improving genuine data ownership and privacy.
If you happen to be reading this post by chance, it may be the kind of thing that makes you scoff. Or it may be unrelated to you. "So what, what can I even do?" — you might say. The point being: you can't do much. Even looking at it very positively, one might say: the idea is fine, but it's not realistic.
This kind of phenomenon happens because inertia and gravitational acceleration have been added to the existing internet ecosystem. An already-flowing paradigm is hard to change and hard to turn around for all participants. For example, it's similar to how IE's development kept moving toward 11 and 12 while many PCs still had 6, 7, 8 installed. Of course, that did change with the shift to mobile.. Ah, good timing. Mobile — yes. It becomes possible only when a new platform like mobile appears and participation and innovation increase broadly.
In other words, there is no room for improvement. It must be a new paradigm. Not comparative advantage, but something new.
On a nice day — but also on a day with some fine dust — just a Sampal-gwangttaeng thought.
