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TEDxObserver – Cory Doctorow



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A Skinner box that trains you to under-value your privacy: how do we make kids care about online privacy?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxObserver, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxObserver event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. http://www.ted.com/tedx

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41 thoughts on “TEDxObserver – Cory Doctorow
  1. I think a big first step for schools to stop normalizing surveillance would be to abandon all proprietary software, especially Microsoft products. Schools making kids learn only Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft office suits makes them familiar with proprietary data stealing products, and kids are likely to use what they are familiar with later in life. If kids learned how to use FOSS alternatives then they would be familiar with FOSS software and likely to use it for the rest of their lives.

  2. Bullshit. I'm French, living in New Zealand, have never set foot in either America nor Britannica, and regularly use various Britishisms, Aussiesms, Kiwisms, Americanisms, Indianisms, Geekisms, Frenchisms, Klingonisms, and Tolkienisms in my sentences. Phrases one uses has to do with society only up until the point when education overtakes it in terms of influence. I pick language particulars from wherever, if I find them relevant, interesting, or useful to convey my meaning, society be damned.

  3. Why wouldn't he use the words if he knows them? Why box yourself into your nationality when you can take wisdom from all around the world?

  4. A type of tech ed. that he's talking about here would actually be extremely useful. I don't know how successful sex ed was in preventing STDs but every teacher i've ever had have led to believe it worked pretty well

  5. @wilde1 Because he lives in London and has for years, and when you hear it every day it becomes habit. He actually uses Britishisms and Americanisms both pretty freely. And why is it obvious he's not British? He's Canadian, BTW.

  6. Cory sez: "The worst of all […] is that it trains kids to believe that surveillance of every move on the Internet is a legitimate and proportionate thing for authority figures to do."

    You remember that part of Blister In The Sun that goes, "This will go down on your permanent record…"?

    That song came out when I was a kid. The joke of it, back then, there was no such thing as a "permanent record". Ever since the 90's/Gen X, there has been. And that sucks.

  7. but Big Brother wants the future generations to be used to a lifestyle that is like 1984. it's what the New World Order is all about. now be quiet sheep and enjoy your big macs and pop music.

  8. @sivav I would have doubted that statement a few years ago, but I've noticed some retirees are pretty computer savvy these days. They get into something like Photoshop or video editing, and from there the interests fan into other computer-related ventures.

  9. Cory, Great talk. Skinner box analogy really made me think about reinforcement online as a grand casino and how the brain is trained for those chances at getting rewarded.

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