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Control, Surveillance & Digital Feudalism: Power, Privacy & the Modern World
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Based on a phenomenal book by Jakob Linaa Jenson: “ The medieval Internet”
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Speaker 0 (0s): March day is just another man manic Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, what's going on, everybody. Welcome to the middle of October. Today is Monday episode. I hope you've got a great weekend. I hope you are enjoying yourself. I hope your family's healthy. I hope you're healthy. I hope you've got a smile on your face. You've got some to look forward to. Maybe even in this podcast, maybe you've been looking forward to this podcast all weekend that will bring a smile to my face.
Wanted to continue today with the next series of power politics and poverty in the digital age. It's fascinating. I know a lot of you have seen the documentary, the social dilemma, and it talks a lot about some of the issues we're having with the internet, the way its changing our society, the way its changing and organizing new laws around itself.
I found it fascinating and it had dovetailed nicely with a lot of different books. I've been reading most of which I have done reviews on or spoke about in the podcast. Let me tell you a little bit about some of those. And then I'm going to dive into the series, which is going to get into the metal internet and how we're kind of sliding backwards in a lot of areas. The first few first few books I read were Marshall.
McLuhan's the global village, the medium in his message, his ideas on the printing press and how linear print has given way to linear thinking. I want a lot of ways, although it was a phenomenal invention, it narrowed our view of the world. I'm going to link in the show notes to an experiment that I did with a penny. And I can tell you a little bit about the penny experiment here.
So take a penny, you set it on the table and you look down on it from an overhead point of view and you'll see a circle with some, you know, some etching on it, depending on how good your eyes are. You might see some letters in some numbers, but you will see a lot of detail and even some depth. You know, if you slowly squat down until your eyes are level with the table and you look at that penny, it will actually turn into a straight line if you get dead, even with it.
And that is a good experiment to explain and visualize what linear print has done to our point of view. It's a really cool experiment. You can check out with a link in the show notes where you can try out with yourself. It's a highly recommended. It's really cool. The next set of books I was reading is by a Russian mathematician called Anatoli Flamingo. When you can follow along that series and the podcast it's called history of science or a fiction, I don't, I can't speak to the validity of the book.
However, it's fascinating to read the amount of detail and the inconsistencies in which a history has been recorded. It brings up the George Orwell quote that he who controls the future. Control's the past,
Speaker 1 (3m 56s): Right?
Speaker 0 (3m 59s): And in order to control the past, you