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Session 10 :: Datasphere daniel-hromada ()


Session 10 :: Datasphere

Order of the day (AE490201)

  1. Introductio :: 3 spheres
  2. Repetitio :: Epoch
  3. Questio :: Is machine evolving ?
  4. Lectio ::
    • from ARPAnet to Internet
    • TCP/IP and the OSI model
    • Web
    • milestones
  5. Disputatio :: Is machine evolving ?

3 spheres

  • Noosphere (Teilhard deChardin)
  • Infosphere (Luciano Floridi)
  • Datasphere (Dan Simmons)

Question of the day

Is machine evolving ?

Evolution (Definition)

Evolution is a durative process emergent in any finite-resourced environment containing a population of information-encoding entities which :
  1. Reproduce
  2. Need resources for their reproduction
  3. Vary because of inaccuracies inherent to reproduction process
(Hromada, 2017, Prolegomena Paedagogica, section 2.1)

3 conjectures

  1. "Machine evolves by means of humans."
  2. "Machine need humans to evolve."
  3. "Machine cannot evolve without humans."

The birth of the infosphere

  • 1st core: ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) funded by US Department of Defense
  • 1st network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP
  • 1st communication took place on 29th October 1969 between University of California in LA and Standford Research Insitute::

    "We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ... We typed the L and we asked on the phone, "Do you see the L?" "Yes, we see the L," came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O." "Yes, we see the O." Then we typed the G, and the system crashed ..."

Infosphere Growth

growth of the infosphere

Osi Model

IP model

The First Website

  • http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
  • sir Timothy Berners-Lee proposed in 1989 "a large hypertext database with typed links"
  • realized in 1990-1991 at CERN (Switzerland)
  • written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
  • communication between the client ("browser") and server according to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Milestone 1994

1994: Yahoo, Amazon founded; the first banner ad; first e-commerce transaction

Milestone 1997

1997: google.stanford.edu — the research project that would become Google

Milestone 1999

1999: cyberspace.cz

Milestone 2001

2001: Wikipedia launches; kyberia.sk

Milestone 2003

2003: Total Information Awareness program revealed

Milestone 2004

2004: Facebook founded

Milestone 2006

2006: "just setting up my twttr"; Google acquires YouTube; WikiLeaks founded

Milestone 2009

2009: the first Bitcoin block is mined

Milestone 2010

2010: Stuxnet discovered

Milestone 2013

2013: Edward Snowden reveals PRISM

Milestone 2018

2018: Cambridge Analytica data scandal; GDPR enters into force

Infosphere Current State

flow within German datasphere

(dataflow through Frankfurt DE-cix peering center)

Post Scriptum

Hackers are conscience of the future ;)