Who owns the internet of the future? | Ordinary Things

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The emergence of data-driven mass surveillance "is threatening to turn privacy into a relic of the 20th century," says the anonymous YouTube creator known as Ordinary Things. Meanwhile, state-funded troll farms are spreading disinformation and curating chaos on platforms meant to connect us and revolutionize the way we live. Ordinary Things gives an enlightening account of the internet's strengths and weaknesses, warning that the fight for a free internet is a fight for our collective future.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:14.0	More of us in the world are spending more and more of our time on the Internet.
0:19.4	You may very well be listening to this on the Internet.
0:22.6	We know that it holds extraordinary promise, but also terrifying pitfalls.
0:27.4	In his 2021 talk from Ted X Vienna, Satterist and Writer ordinary things addresses a key question
0:33.8	as we head into whatever happens next.
0:36.5	How we protect what makes the Internet great and change what makes it scary.
0:42.8	After a short break?
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0:49.1	Maybe you've stayed in an Airbnb before and thought to yourself, maybe my place could
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0:54.2	Perhaps your housemates going to move out and you're thinking about what to do with that space.
0:58.8	That extra room could be an Airbnb.
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1:16.5	Hi there, my name is Jody Avergan and I'm the host of a new podcast from Ted called Good Sport.
1:22.8	It's my argument to you that we can use sports as a way of understanding the world around us and ourselves.
1:29.9	Each episode will explore one idea or question from sports that I think unlocks something more universal.
1:36.9	Next, I try to channel my inner sports debate brawl and find out that the way we argue about sports
1:42.9	has kind of become the way we argue about everything.
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