(Bond - Terry Winters)
Connect the Dots
Is this the internet Steve Job's envisioned?
A warzone?
A lawless internet where people's lives can be destroyed and they do not have legal means to address this?
Where slander is rampant, teen cyber-bullying ending too many lives? Lives uncounted, the numbers are not known.
Where Americans are having their addresses posted along with threats, putting them and their families in real hazard..........
and no one cares?
where censorship is all over the place? Where privacy is impossible???
Nope!!!
Steve Jobs hoped the Internet would change the World, but he never, ever, ever, thought this meant repression and fear tactics. This is not change. This is manipulation. This is Harm.
Jobs understood that when he said the Internet was going to change the World, there are some things you Don't want to change:
“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.
“But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” [Wired, February 1996]
Steve Jobs knew what was important. He knew there were things that have to be protected:
“I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.” [Wired, February 1996]
People. Human beings.
Steve Jobs Reinvented What It Means to be Human
The Human Being, and their rights, need to be front and center, on the Internet.
Internet privacy rights are a must. People need to be much better protected, their safety ensured.
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2-24-12 - Happy Birthday Steve Jobs. You have been an inspiration to me. Thank you for that, thinking of you today.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
- Steve Jobs
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Is this the Internet Steve Jobs envisioned?
Nope!! Not at all.
Lets get his vision back in place.
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This interesting app:
has alerted me to the incredible amount of tracking going on of each of us.
Revealing and scary. This Firefox add-on, shows you how you are being tracked after visiting different websites.
And Why are they tracking our movements?
In service to advertisers? So, the advertisers of America are willingly participating in illicit spying on people, unbeknownst to them??? Yikes!
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Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?"
Humanity comes not from the machine but from the Heart.
- Joseph Campbell.
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Comments
The world it has created, Topix tot, is not the one Steve Jobs had in mind. He would roll over in his grave.
Why the wall against it, Silicon Valley? Why the insensitivity, at this level? You cannot want to save the whales, and not care about the people right here in America, also.