En 2011, Google possède un parc de plus de 900 000 serveurs, soit 2,8 % du marché à lui tout seul, avec des appareils répartis sur 32 sites. En octobre 2010, le leader numérique représente 6,4 % du trafic Internet mondial et affiche une croissance supérieure à celle du web ! En Europe, il occupe une position hégémonique puisque sa part de marché dans la recherche représente plus de 93%.
As I've written here before, science fiction is terrible at predicting the future, but it's great at predicting the present. SF writers imagine all the futures they can, and these futures are processed by a huge, dynamic system consisting of editors, booksellers, and readers. The futures that attain popular and commercial success tell us what fears and aspirations for technology and society are bubbling in our collective imaginations.
Financial Times reporter and Twitter user Sarah O'Connor is not, in fact, robot-fighting Sarah Connor from the Terminator series.
“At a base minimum, people should be able to walk down a public street without fear that companies they’ve never heard of are tracking their every movement — and identifying them by name — using facial recognition technology,” the privacy advocates wrote in a joint statement. “Unfortunately, we have been unable to obtain agreement even with that basic, specific premise.”
The United States and other developed countries are in the midst of a digital revolution that may be even more profound than the industrial revolutions of the past. Advances in robotics, cognitive computing and other digital technologies promise untold benefits in a world of leisure hard to imagine. But there is also a dark side to this technological change. It could lead to joblessness for most and extreme inequality, threatening economic health and political stability. Tension over rising inequality and a lack of good-paying middle class jobs is growing in Silicon Valley and nearby San Francisco, the epicentre of computerisation and the information economy. In San Francisco, buses for Google, Facebook and other companies ferry high-paid tech workers to their jobs in Silicon Valley. This allows tens of thousands to live in the city, fuelling popular anger over gentrification and high housing prices that are pushing longtime residents out.
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Vu la gueule du présent, même les démocrates les plus farfelus s'entendent à reconnaître qu'il n'y a pas d'autre choix que de retourner la table. Quant à l'antiterrrorisme, il faut vivre les yeux fermés pour ne pas voir l'instrument politique de gouvernement qu'il constitue depuis quinze ans, et plus notablement en France depuis les attentats de janvier. Nous proposons donc, à la suite du dernier livre du Comité Invisible, À nos amis, de livrer à la discussion publique ces deux questions parfaitement terroristes : comment en finir avec l'antiterrorisme comme mode de gouvernement ? Et comment s'organiser afin de renverser l'ordre existant ?
Djihadisme : Manuel Valls annonce la création d'un "bataillon de community managers"
The Frontline documentary includes a clip from Zero Dark Thirty in which a CIA torturer yells at an al Qaeda prisoner, “When you lie to me, I hurt you!” A repurposing of that line would hold true for the government and the American public — when it lies to us, it hurts us.