Alan Emtage,
Principal, Mediapolis, Inc.
DEMOCRACY AT STAKE
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“For the first time, [there’s] the ability to manipulate large swaths of the population in ways that are fundamentally undemocratic [and it’s] really exploiting the basest interests of human beings...People that otherwise would’ve been screaming into the void have found communities that are not positive, that are not helpful, that are working in ways that undermine fundamental institutions in our society.”
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“We want people to abandon traditional IT. That means we want people to abandon cloud services, content distribution networks, firewalls, databases—all of that, the whole stack—and just begin building by writing smart contracts and pushing them to the internet computer. We think this will provide humanity with immense benefits.”
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UNLEASHING THE OPEN INTERNET BOOM
Dominic Williams,
Founder & Chief Scientist, DFINITY Foundation
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“It’s only recently that people have started to get afraid of [the internet] in a deep sense…The recent change that social media has made to altering the nature of democracy and weaponizing the use of propaganda…That’s the first thing that’s made me think to regret anything. I think we’ll find solutions to it; it’s a very young problem.”
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THE INTERNET’S MORAL DILEMMA
Brad Templeton,
Founder, Clarinet
