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re:publica 2011 Gunter Dueck - Das internet als Gesellschaftsbetriebssystem

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    If a book is described as good on Amazon, but I dislike the tone of the other reviews,
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    then I might rate it one star to level down the average. I got used to this by now.
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    It's been ten years I've been doing it, but sometimes the internet is not all that simple.
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    My son always tells me, "Get used to it!".
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    Like that one time, when a beautiful woman messaged me on Facebook, sending me a kiss.
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    My son said, "First off, that's not her real picture." I wasn't aware.
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    "And everyone 'kisses' here, that doesn't mean anything." You know, that kind of discussion.
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    As an older person, I have to get used to it somehow.
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    Sometimes, it really hurts. One would say, that's so beyond etiquette.
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    I notice you mainly discuss internet rights or copyright laws here, something I used to do, too.
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    My first book, "Wild Duck", cannot be translated into an American version, because the one or other sentence is quoted.
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    The translator who could, expressed that she certainly won't do it.
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    First, I have to get about 130 concessions in the US, since in the US I have to append such a list, proving that you got consent.
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    I'd have to invest 14 days to get it done, but I really don't fancy doing this.
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    That's one perspective, as someone affected by it.
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    Basically, it's not just about getting more rights on the internet.
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    Those have been established to prevent crime, to prevent misuse.
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    You have to consider, what crimes will emerge if you get the rights you're asking for.
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    That's something I experience. Tricks people come up with.
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    I gave a conference speech on Monday, aiming to call things as they are.
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    I asked explicitely if the event was being recorded - "No".
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    Okay then. You know, otherwise I wouldn't be allowed to say, "That wouldn't have happened at Daimler or Deutsche Telekom."
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    Instead, I have to say, "At some big, international producer." You force me to do that!
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    If you're not being recorded, you're free to say as you mean it. Now, the speech is on Youtube, in six parts.
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    And so on. I'm not happy with this situation. We could have made an arrangement, you know... as I said, I can contribute to the debate from a victim's perspective.
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    Well, certainly I'm getting more widely known, and I reached 1000 Twitter followers by now. So, apparently, not everyone of you yet. Let me try...
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    I introduced Bluepedia at IBM, likewise Wikipedia, including a Web 2.0 movement, just for the fun of it.
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    I'm almost the eldest there, and it's always me. Try to discuss these things with other companies, they're always like, "That's way, way ahead."
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    Somewhere here, you can listen to a talk about the web 2.0 stuff IBM is doing. That's almost revolutionary already. In this situation, I'm trying to make the best of it.
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    Today, I want to talk about the internet per se. Maybe you're expecting something different - I won't say anything technical about it. That exists already.
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    There is this other book I wrote, my second one I think, "E-Man". I have to say, that was half an eternity ago, more than ten years. Written in 2000 or something.
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    At the end, there is this chapter about the really valuable asset of humanity, the internet - the knowledge recorded there.
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    Usually, philosophy says that men and beast differ by the means of language
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    and that people can be nice, while animals can't, or whatnot. Dogs forget.
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    It's possible that the real value is on the internet, not in your head. It's just a small excerpt that you carry around on your mobile.
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    You know, we're essentially like an ant, with the anthill being the really important part. The internet is degrading everything else by a bit, isn't it?
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    Now, there is this operating system that holds everything and knows it all, and you are but a small maggot in the system.
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    And you still consider yourself the creator. That may be true for a few years, but then it'll encompass everything. Soon, it will be created automatically.
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    Okay, I propagate extreme views, sometimes, I can then conclude the marketing part: my website is www.omnisophie.com - Omnisophie is one of my book titles, meaning answer to all questions.
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    So, if you wonder about the meaning of life - it's in the book. There's a short version on Youtube, too. Meaning of life in 15 minutes.
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    Last time, I wrote about nuclear power; that there should be a liability insurance. All the newspapers, they picked it up.
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    You'll find the ultimate solution for female quotas there, too.
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    Let's take a look at my agenda to see what else I'm supposed to talk about. Just about a few questions regarding the internet.
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    For a moment, let me moan that the internet hasn't fully arrived yet.
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    We got it here, but I have been warned that it's completely surcharged in this room. So, it isn't even accessible here, then.
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    I want to say a few words about that. I have to, since the government doesn't act on it.
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    In the Handelsblatt newspaper, I read that some government representative could imagine only a single use case that would require a person to exceed 2 Mbit data stream.
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    That is, certain movie downloads - imagination doesn't go much beyond that. I have to grumble about that.
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    To that questions of the government department - not the secretary for internet, explicitly: It's different than you think.
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    Something about services: That's a sad part, possibly. Most professions disappear. Yes, that's what I just said. The internet does this. - You don't believe me.
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    It means that we need to have more capabilities in future. More than what's on the internet.
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    If you go to a bank and ask about a foreign stock, let's say "Reliance Industries" from India, then your consultant won't know about it anyway. But you do, since you surfed the web.
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    Let me get a bit deeper into this issue. Wir asking, what else should people be able to do, beyond the internet?
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    It's not about knowledge, really. That's where I attack the educational system, that only serves the purpose of filling up your hard drive.
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    It's the same at university. As a dean at my university - I'm an extracurricular professor there - told me recently, the math curriculum has been wonderfully reorganised to allow the 180 credit points to be taken in arbitrary order.
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    I replied, "That's awesome. And I had the impression, math skills slowly build up on each other."
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    He said, "No, we decoupled that completely." I mean, the question should be admitted what student learn there at all. This turns into kind of a mini-sbscription to Wikipedia or something. That's not great, is it?
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    Right. Then, I want to talk politics.
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    If you ride the train in Germany - I have to do that all the time -, try to access your corporate email.
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    I know, there are some routes between Mannheim and Cologne, and around Karlsruhe, where you might be lucky. Between Stuttgart and Lindau, is all a big mess. No chance.
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    I'm an open proponent of terminal rail stations. In Stuttgart, Leipzig, Munich, Lindau, Friedrichshafen, that's awesome. It's stopping there for five minutes!
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    Time to work calmly. But seriously - that's unsustainable, isnt it?
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    I've been to a more shady area. In Hof. In Hof, there is internet, basically, but in the outer regons, the industry is decaying.
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    Young people are not willing to work there and real estate prices slump. Do you really want to buy a house in an area where you don't stand a chance to be part of a prospering community?
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    Companies there have to run purchases and taxes etc via cloud computing. Is that where you want to move to?
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    I read a lot about Brandenburg. The area here, where doctors per inhabitants approach zero, and you have to turn to internet doctors. Slowly, we'll have to measure blood sugar levels via the internet. Online.
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    Not like today, reading values from a USB stick, converted for a different operating system, then printed in some medical office.
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    And the following weekend, the doctor takes a quick glance and says, "Two percent off!". You know, things that can be done online.
Title:
re:publica 2011 Gunter Dueck - Das internet als Gesellschaftsbetriebssystem
Description:

Vortrag von Gunter Dueck auf der re:publica 2011 für alle die es auch Interessiert :).

Bitte verzeiht mir das am Anfang paar Minuten fehlen und zwischendurch sich etwas bemerktbar macht, dennoch hoffe ich das nicht die wichtigsten Aspekte aus den Vortrag verloren gegangen ist.

Anbei ein großes Dankeschön an das re:publica Team und alle die daran beteiligt waren von meiner Seite.
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