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SUMMARY:Pax Technica: the implications of the Internet of Things - Profess
 or Philip Howard\, Oxford Internet Institute
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:In 2016 "Philip Howard":https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/philip
 -howard/\, now Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford and a leading schol
 ar on the impact of the Internet on politics\, published "*Pax Technica: H
 ow the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up*":http://amzn.to/2
 hyIrJQ in which he tried to assess what the "long term implications":http:
 //www.journalofdemocracy.org/article/internet-things of this hyper-connect
 ed network might be.  Among these possible implications\, he noted\, are:\
 n* The IoT is likely to bring a special kind of stability to global politi
 cs (analogous to the uneasy stand-off of the Cold War) \n* The new world o
 rder would be characterised by a pact between big tech firms and governmen
 ts   \n* Governments may have decreasing capacity to govern the IoT while 
 corporate (and also bad) actors will become more powerful in the hyper-con
 nected world that the technology will create.  \n* The IoT will generate r
 emarkable opportunities for society but the security and privacy risks tha
 t it could create will also pose formidable problems for society\n* The Io
 T looks like an unstoppable juggernaut\, so we should learn from our exper
 ience with earlier incarnations of the Internet to try and ensure that his
 tory does not repeat itself.\n\n*Pax Technica* is an ambitious and far-rea
 ching book\, and like all such volumes it raises almost as many questions 
 — about international and national politics\, governance\, security and 
 privacy — as it answers.  The "Technology and Democracy project":http://
 technologyanddemocracy.tumblr.com/ at CRASSH seeks to use the book as a ju
 mping-off point for exploring some of these questions.  We will do this in
  a major one-day public event in Cambridge on November 24\, 2017 featuring
  Professor Howard and invited experts from a number of relevant discipline
 s.  \n\nThe event will open with a keynote address\, after which three pan
 els of invited experts will discuss specific implications of a hyper-conne
 cted world.  \n\nTo book a place (which includes lunch and refreshments) p
 lease click "here":https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cbk/vmxu/index.cgi\
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LOCATION:Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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