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网络公司和政府机构日益密集地分析我们的生活信息。对此,我们倾向于诉诸新的隐私法律,或者创造出方案来让自己就这些个人数据获得补偿。但实际上,我们需要的是一个公民化的解决方案,因为民主政治岌岌可危。1967年,重要的知识分子公共政策辩论期刊《公众利益》(The Public Interest)刊登了一篇颇具挑衅性的文章。作者保罗·巴兰(Paul Baran)是“包交换”(packet switching)这种数据传输方式的发明人之一。这篇名为《未来的计算机公用事业》(The Future Computer Utility)的文章推测,某天少数大型的、中央集权的计算机将会提供“和我们现在购电的方式一样的信息处理”。
Internet companies and government agencies increasingly analyze our life information. In this regard, we tend to resort to new privacy laws or create programs that allow ourselves to be compensated for these personal data. But in fact, what we need is a civilized solution because democracies are in jeopardy. In 1967, a provocative essay was published in The Public Interest, a leading intellectual public policy debate. The author Paul Baran is one of the inventors of the data transfer method “packet switching”. The article, entitled “The Future Computer Utility,” speculates that one of the few large, centralized computers someday will provide “the same kind of information processing that we buy electricity today.”