Ethics track #TheWebConf mentions Kranzberg first law of technology which states "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melv…
@cward1e@TheWebConf Our relation to information is irationnal. It has much to do with emotions. Educating people against misinformation must take this into account.
.@cward1e describes one way to classify “bad” information: misinformation (falseness), malinformation (intent to harm), and disinformation (falseness + intent to harm). #TheWebConf
Tim Smith @TheWebConf Scientific articles are no longer self-sufficient carriers of scientific knowledge. They are the tip of the knowledge iceberg. We need to share the rest to make science verifiable and reproducible (again).
@davidakaye@TheWebConf "Governments should look at the internet as a space for public debate, not as something people need to be prorected from. Otherwise, we will end up with bad laws."
@JeffDean presenting TPU clusters that measure in petaflops at @TheWebConf ! Mindblowing, but I'm kind of wishing we also had other measures, like how much heat they produc. ..