The next social network will provide tools with which it will be possible to create endless variations – variations the original creators of the network could have never dreamt of. That’s where the magic is going to happen; where the masses will create perpetual diversity and disruption, effectively avoiding Facebook’s fate. After all, how can you disrupt a network that is disrupting itself?

Internet et les réseaux sociaux encouragent de plus en plus les gens à s’organiser, à agir et faire éclater au grand jour des méfaits commis aux quatre coins de la planète. Cela menace certains gouvernements et entraîne une augmentation de la surveillance et de la censure, qui menace à son tour l’avenir de la démocratie.

The government funded the early technologies that led to the Internet, venture capitalists are financed by nontechies’ retirement funds, and laws passed in Washington can determine the tech industry’s legal future. Companies launched in the Valley depend on the quick, widespread acceptance of their products by everyone who lives outside their shiny bubble.

You can’t beat politics with new technology all the time. Sometimes you have to actually make sure that politics are in line with what people want. A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviours towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.

Google’s chief internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, suggests that privacy is a fairly new development that may not be sustainable. “Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” Cerf said at an FTC event yesterday while taking questions.