Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture 7: MIT 2100- Big Tech (Week 7) Feb 27

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

The (cid:862)po(cid:449)er(cid:863) i(cid:374) politi(cid:272)al e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455: internet emerged in an unplanned way, different phases military, free internet, dot. coms, what is emerging is big corporate power, power to change society in ways that rival government. Wealth is the economy power is the political economy: e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:448)er ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) desig(cid:374), (cid:862)s(cid:373)art (cid:272)ities(cid:863) google and toronto, the a(cid:373)azo(cid:374) (cid:862)hu(cid:374)ger ga(cid:373)es(cid:863) Issues with power: what seems to be happening now is big corporate power, in which we see the emergence of giant, high technology companies, which exert power over our lives in some unprecedented ways. Google, sidewalk & toronto : https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=avulllvurei: google robots, google created autonomous cars suggests it will exclude normal vehicles. Google will network the software: surveillance and big data it wants to see the huge inputs on data and what people are doing (patterns of network activity, travels. & military-industrial complex, and major lobbying power government plays a key role in this: building on the basis of silicone valley.