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Tim Wu discusses The Master Switch - Stanford Center for Internet and Society
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14,414 views • May 15, 2011
Author Tim Wu -
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
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The Printing Press, Publication, Telegraph, Telephone, Radio, Movies, TV and the Internet Have All Suffered the Same Fate. The Complete Takeover by Oligarch Monopolies and Resulting Public Censorship. AI WILL BE THE NEXT TARGET
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND HOW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS HIGHJACKED THROUGH CONSOLIDATION OF OWNERSHIP
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ALWAYS LEADING TO A MONOPOLY THAT STRICTLY ENFORCES CENSORSHIP AND CONTROL
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This Very Same Scenario is Happening Once Again with the Roll Out of AI. But this time the Open Period will Be Much Shorter. And to Establish and Control the AI Digital Beast System and Digital Governance Social Control System Will be a Far More Draconian Crack Down.
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It will All Happen So Fast that Few will even See it Coming, nor have Any Chance to Prevent it From Happening. The Public Will be the Users, the Victims. Not the Creators or Controllers of the Control Grid.
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THIS TIME IT WILL NOT ONLY BE A MONOPOLY, BUT A DICTATORSHIP AS WELL
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14,414 views • May 15, 2011
Stanford Center for Internet &amp; Society - May 9, 2011 - Stanford Law School CIS Speakers Series
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BOOKMARKS:
The Master Switch
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Network Neutrality
1:01
The Chronos Effect
11:43
Challenge of Avoiding Vertical Monopolies
53:27
The Life and Death of Great American Applications
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TheWarAgainstYou:
Revolutionary New Communication Technologies Always Have the Public Believing that:
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THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING FOR THE PROPLE
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A GAME CHANGER THAT BREAKS THE MONOPOLY AND EMPOWERS THE COMMON MAN
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But what happens inevitably is that after an Open Period Establishing the Technology, where the Creative Development and Hard Work has been done by the Original Creators and Developers, THE TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS TAKEN OVER BY THE CONTROLIGARCHS.
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A CONSOLIDATION OF POWER THAT IS USED TO HIGHJACK THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND CONTROL SOCIETY THROUGH A MONOPOLY THAT IS DETRIMENTAL TO SOCIETY AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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The Internet was Created as a Weapon, Spy Network and the Ultimate System of Control.
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But US Military Intelligence KNEW that they had to Step Back and leave the Internet Wide Open to Developers and Users to Draw Everyone into the Web. But once they are Addicted to and Reliant upon the Internet as an every day NECESSITY, they were more than Ready to Crank the Screws and Tighten it Down...
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Everyone should also expect that Artificial Intelligence will also Fall Victim to Censorship and Control.
But this time it will be a Fascist Public Private Partnership Corporate-Government Monopoly, that will not only remove access for Open Public USE to the Top End and Prevent Public Competition, but also to Allow the Police State Surveillance Control Grid of the AI Digital Beast System and Digital Governance to Operate.
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Regulating those who work on the System by the Big Tech Oligarch Monopolies will Completely Block the number that even Know How.
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It will be a Matter of National Security.
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ONLY THOSE WHO SERVE THE BEAST SYSTEM WILL BE ALLOWED TO LEARN OR WORK IN THE INDUSTRY
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If the Public Does Not Take Over Control of AI Technology Now, they will Seel Their Fate. Trump Openly Proclaimed that AI Represents a Matter of Economic Global Dominance and National Security.
But FOR the Beast System to Operate without Public Interference or Sabotage, THE PUBLIC MUST BE DENIED ACCESS TO HIGH LEVEL TECHNOLOGY OR THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO CONTROL IT.
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Think of what it was like for a Scientist in the Soviet Union. Only the PRIVILEGED or Those Who Serve Will Ever Be Granted Access.
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But even more important than learning how to Create or Use AI NOW Before it&apos;s Too Late, is to Develope Cyber Security and Hacking Skills. Only those with such High Level Skills will Stand Between the Public and the Beast System Digital Prison and Digital Governance Social Control.
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Just like how Text Books on Chemistry from the 50&apos;s were the last years to include KNOWLEDGE BELIEVED TO BE TOO DANGERS FOR PUBLIC ACCESS...
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So will High Level Knowledge of AI will Become Highly Restricted. And Computer and Internet Technology Will ALSO Be Required to be Restricted AS WELL...
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PRISONERS WILL NEVER BE GIVEN THE MEANS TO CREATE THEIR OWN KEY TO BREAK FREE FROM THEIR PRISON...
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Stanford Center for Internet and Society May 9, 2011 - Stanford Law School CIS Speakers Series

Tim Wu presented his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of &quot;the master switch&quot;? That is the big question of Tim Wu&apos;s pathbreaking book.

As Wu&apos;s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century—radio, telephone, television, and film—was born free and open. Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination.
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Here are stories of an uncommon will to power, the power over information: Adolph Zukor, who took a technology once used as commonly as YouTube is today and made it the exclusive prerogative of a kingdom called Hollywood . . . NBC&apos;s founder, David Sarnoff, who, to save his broadcast empire from disruptive visionaries, bullied one inventor (of electronic television) into alcoholic despair and another (this one of FM radio, and his boyhood friend) into suicide . . . And foremost, Theodore Vail, founder of the Bell System, the greatest information empire of all time, and a capitalist whose faith in SOVIET-STYLE CENTRAL PLANNING SET THE COURSE OF EVERY INFORMATION INDUSTRY THEREAFTER.
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Explaining how invention begets industry and industry begets empire—a progress often blessed by government, typically with stifling consequences for free expression and technical innovation alike—Wu identifies a time-honored pattern in the maneuvers of today&apos;s great information powers: Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&amp;T. A battle royal looms for the Internet&apos;s future, and with almost every aspect of our lives now dependent on that network, this is one war we dare not tune out.