Design Spectrum* - Anna Ovchinnikova

Future = Internet = Entering into Digital Culture

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way of working & collaboration between the people, about future and possibility that we already have for those days? The first thing that coming into my mind it’s internet, & it is obvious point that become to my mind & for many of us, spatially now a day the value & power of information, the time speed and the world-wide connection we having now, is incredible … I write my article, publish & it is all over the world! from Japan to US, in Himalayan mountain where ever if there is point of internet connection you can have it straight next second. Simple, great, genial, powerful, isn’t! All it’s great, but do we have to be careful & respectful with such a power in a hands? 
We starded finally realized that the internet is much more than a network of computers. It is an endless web of people. Men and women from every corner of the globe are connecting to one another, thanks to the biggest social interface ever known to humanity. 
Digital culture has laid the foundations for a new kind of society. And this society is advancing dialogue, debate and consensus through communication. 

“The internet can be considered the first weapon of mass construction, which we can deploy to destroy hate and conflict and to propagate peace and democracy,” said Riccardo Luna, editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of Wired magazine. “What happened in Iran after the latest election, and the role the web played in spreading information that would otherwise have been censored, are only the newest examples of how the internet can become a weapon of global hope.”

Ebadi, the first Iranian Muslim woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said the internet’s free-speech power outweighs any negative use of the international network, contact with others has always been the most effective antidote against hatred and conflict. Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi is first to sign on for the Internet for Peace initiative. “The internet can be also used to fuel war and terrorism, as Taliban proselytism clearly shows,” she told Wired Italy.
“The spreading of the news about the Tehran riots, however — that raced at a pace of 220,000 tweets per hour — was way too overwhelming to make us doubt that it would have been possible without the internet. It is not a coincidence that during the first trials against the protesters, the attorney general accused Google, Facebook and Twitter of conspiring against the establishment.”

The Internet for Peace manifesto, which will be translated into more than a dozen languages on the Internet for Peace site, outlines the reasons for the nomination. That’s why the internet is a tool for peace. That’s why anyone who uses it can sow the seeds of nonviolence. 

Thanks to Wired magazine, Riccardo Luna, Shirin Ebadi & all others thats cares about Future Digital Culture that we entering.

Book Publisher Tries Reversing the Fate of Industry with Viral Video

There’s a new viral video making the rounds that challenges the normal order of the written word. The vid was (somewhat appropriately) created for a publishing company.

Created in the UK for a Penguin subsidiary, “The End of Publishing” offers viewers a very different narrative dependent on whether the text is read forwards or backwards.

How Google Sees the Web in 5 Years from Now

This is a very interesting excerpt from Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years:

“…Highlighted comments include:

• Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
• Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.
• Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
• Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance – and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
• “We’re starting to make signifigant money off of Youtube”, content will move towards more video.
• “Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results.”
• There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.
• We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?
• It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.

The Future of the Web, if people doesn’t understood extremely important to start create CULTURE of Using INTERNET machine.

magazine WE, has been looking at the future of the Internet, and one thing seems sure: it’s going to suck if we don’t start to change something! Here we look at their implications, and why you might want a blindfold for some of these future visions:

1. The Pragmatic Internet

LETS START to BILD A CULTURE!

The Birth of the Internet

While computers were not a new concept in the 1950s, there were relatively few computers in existence and the field of computer science was still in its infancy. Most of the advances in technology at the time - cryptography, radar, battlefield communications - were due to military operations during World War II, and it was, in fact, government activities that led to the development of the Internet. 

On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, man’s first foray into outer space, and the U.S. government under President Eisenhower subsequently launched an aggressive military campaign to compete with and surpass the Soviet activities. From the launch of Sputnik and the U.S.S.R. testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was born. ARPA was the U.S. government’s research agency for all space and strategic missile research. In 1958, NASA was formed, and the activities of ARPA moved away from aeronautics and focused mainly on computer science and information processing. One of ARPA’s goals was to connect mainframe computers at different universities around the country so that they would be able to communicate using a common language and a common protocol. Thus the ARPAnet — the world’s first multiple-site computer network — was created in 1969.

The original ARPAnet eventually grew into the Internet. The Internet was based on the concept that there would be multiple independent networks that began with the ARPAnet as the pioneering packet-switching network but would soon include packet satellite networks and ground-based packet radio networks.

Brief Timeline of the Internet

When we talk about the Internet, we talk about the World Wide Web from the past four or five years. But, its history goes back a lot further; all the way back to the 1950s and 60s.

“Where was I,” you ask, “while all this was happening?” Well, it’s quite simple really: the Space Program. America was so fascinated with sending men into outer space, hundreds of miles away, it never saw what was being invented to bring everyone closer together — eventually.

So, just in case you missed the development of the Internet, here is a brief timeline highlighting some of the major occurrences over the past 49 years that have shaped the Internet of today. For more extensive info, you’ll find links to other timelines here, brief timeline of the internet.

Who Owns the Internet? 

No one actually owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls the Internet in its entirety. More of a concept than an actual tangible entity, the Internet relies on a physical infrastructure that connects networks to other networks. There are many organizations, corporations, governments, schools, private citizens and service providers that all own pieces of the infrastructure, but there is no one body that owns it all. There are, however, organizations that oversee and standardize what happens on the Internet and assign IP addresses and domain names, such as the National Science Foundation, the Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN, InterNIC and the Internet Architecture Board.