Unhealthy Internet, musical neuron and professor outgrade

The topic of release is Internet health

The Internet is not quite healthy, it follows from the Mozilla report on the state of the World Wide Web. The authors of the report are asked by five basic questions:

1. Is the Internet safe?
2. Is he open?
3. Who is happy on the Internet?
4. Who will succeed in him?
5. Who controls the Internet?

Unfortunately, the first two questions are a brief answer-“no”, the third and fourth-“not all”, and the fifth-8 technicopolines from the USA and China, which control not only the digital advertising market, Internet trade, cloud calculations and user data, but also a significant part of the underwater cables. In the illustration below black, cables belonging to technohigans are marked.

If you set the goal of reducing more than a 80-page report to the top ten, it will turn out the following.

• Over 50% of the land residents by 2019 are connected to the Internet.
• The ethnic and sexual interpretation of the Internet does not correspond to the world, and the poor regions often get the slowest and expensive Internet.
• The Internet censorship flourishes around the world.
• Biometry is abused by both the authorities and private companies.
• Artificial intelligence multiplies injustice, making mistakes during training or learning not to that.
• A public movement appeared for a more responsible development of AI.
• There are more and more questions to large technological companies - they relate to both abuse of power and non -presentation.
• Billions of users do not know how to consciously and responsibly make decisions on the Internet, not only web, but also media literacy-people do not understand what they looked or read.
• Users still do not realize the threats associated with the fact that someone else uses their data.
• Calls to control personal data are the main topic of discussion of the Internet community.

The Bell examined the report in more detail here .

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It is recommended to mix Lady Gaga with an entry from Beethoven.

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Brekhuna. Who are they and what do we know about them? Scientific 36-page work on the phenomenon ( PDF ). The Russian “Brekhuna” is only partly conveyed by the English concept of Bullshitters, which the authors define as people who proclaim themselves experts in the field, about which they have in fact they have a very small idea. For an older generation, a beautiful Bullshitter sample would be Professor Stregalllo from Monday on Saturday.

Three scientists complain that, despite the widespread phenomenon, relatively little sociological studies have been conducted. The authors took for testing the most affordable group - students. About 40 thousand young people and girls from nine English -speaking countries asked if they were familiar with 16 mathematical concepts. Three concepts were invented by researchers. According to the average number of affirmative answers to questions about what the “correct number”, “subjunctive recalculation” and “declarative fraction” is, they managed to build a groan scale.

An important scientific result was obtained - the factor of the spread of the Brekhunes in countries, genders, socioeconomic status, migration status and possession of mathematical terms.

Before reading, it is recommended to get acquainted with the academic essay Harry Frankfurt from Princeton University, which is called - On Bullshit ( PDF ).