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v. [from the surf idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of surfing in to a particular resource. Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about surfing the net tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by ignorami.
++ The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services". Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy" (and in some cases also your liberty). By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing. +
++ The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use as a way of describing the dominant business model of the internet. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services" directly. Or at least, not enough to be profitable. Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy", and in some cases also your liberty. By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing. If you know enough about someone's habits, preferences and political or religious views then they become more amenable to social engineering, and this could be behavioristically automated via machine learning. By the late 2010s surveillance capital had gone far beyond advertising and was being used to influence the outcomes of elections or public referenda. +
1. vt. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file
diff --git a/docs/jargon.org b/docs/jargon.org index b3e1001..71afd44 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.org +++ b/docs/jargon.org @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Monday, 10 August 2020 02:14PM UTC +This file last generated Monday, 10 August 2020 02:34PM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -7803,6 +7803,12 @@ n. After-sale handholding; something many software vendors promise but few deliv *** surf v. [from the surf idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of surfing in to a particular resource. Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about surfing the net tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by ignorami. +*** surveillance capital +The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services". Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy" (and in some cases also your liberty). By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing. + +*** surveillance capital +The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 and thereafter entered widespread use as a way of describing the dominant business model of the internet. Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay for web services" directly. Or at least, not enough to be profitable. Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy", and in some cases also your liberty. By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, or used by letter agencies for political policing. If you know enough about someone's habits, preferences and political or religious views then they become more amenable to social engineering, and this could be behavioristically automated via machine learning. By the late 2010s surveillance capital had gone far beyond advertising and was being used to influence the outcomes of elections or public referenda. + *** swab 1. vt. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file diff --git a/entries/surveillance-capital.txt b/entries/surveillance-capital.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7ff320 --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/surveillance-capital.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +surveillance capital + +The "web 2.0" business model which emerged from Silicon Valley from +approximately 2004 onwards and which was enabled by the advent of +cloud computing. The term was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2014 +and thereafter entered widespread use as a way of describing the +dominant business model of the internet. + +Surveillance capital solved the dot com problem from the late 1990s of +how to monetize the internet in a situation where "nobody will pay +for web services" directly. Or at least, not enough to be profitable. +Instead the idea was that you "pay with your privacy", and in some +cases also your liberty. + +By collecting data about how people use the internet detailed personal +profiles could be created which could then be monetized for advertising, +or used by letter agencies for political policing. If you know enough +about someone's habits, preferences and political or religious views +then they become more amenable to social engineering, and this could +be behavioristically automated via machine learning. By the late 2010s +surveillance capital had gone far beyond advertising and was being used +to influence the outcomes of elections or public referenda.