Last week, Princeton’s Center for Information and Technology Policy had a conference on “Computing in the Cloud“, and Josh Tauberer (of GovTrack.us), Andrew Page (of MapLight.org), and me (John Wonderlich) got to be on a panel together.
Here’s a video of our panel; the other panels are accessible here.
The main thing I took away from the event is that the tension between centralized and decentralized computing will force us to rethink all aspects of digital culture. Privacy means something entirely different when data all goes through centralized servers, the open source movement is fundamentally affected when software becomes web-based (and therefore not even installed on individuals’ computers), security concerns change along with architectural developments, and new relationships between institutions breed new power struggles, new regulatory contexts, and new opportunities for organization.
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