This causes much of appetites and fantasies

Since a famous article "Google makes us stupid", Nicholas Carr is (as it is today) the buzz. To produce his critical book of Internet essayist, partially disconnected, before opening again its blog (). His dive in the history of knowledge and the results of the neuroscience does not result in of jérémiade technophobe. Digital gadgets that concern us have neurobiological experiments. The Hypertext world leads to focus on the event, the click and the foil. The flood of data and images, the adolescent brains measurably damaged. But, as Carr, new technology has an impact on our ways of seeing and thinking. The alphabet, cards, watches have changed the world. Internet also. In these pages, it tells much about the "neurological plasticity" human, through concrete examples such as the taxi driver whose work more now based on her GPS only on his memory. Carr said the decline of the printed book and the rise of the sabir of the SMS. Addiction, distraction, dispersion, certainly characterize the Internet thinking. There is no less than all these ICT today a new way of life. For Carr, we lose concentration, reflection and contemplation. It is probably more accurate to say that we are changing. Deeply.

Global digital democracy, perfect yesterday, is probably not for tomorrow. Scholars of the Internet, in an OpenNet Initiative (expertisent levels of control and infringement of the freedoms in 65 countries (of the Azerbaijan to the New Zealand).) With these extensive studies, it is clear that new walls and new filters appear in authoritarian regimes (close and censor), but also in other forms, in democracies (who want to "regulate"). Online monitoring extends, legitimized by the fight against terrorism or child pornography. On all continents, but with varied intensity is observed a "colonization" of the Internet by the States concerned of a cyberspace based on global and private infrastructures. The French, which we learn that they switch total a billion hours per month on the Web, live in a country more free but where debates on the video surveillance and Hadopi the showing, the subject is increasingly played. The authors report the growing "militarization" of the Internet. Democrats, they recall that Stalin considered that the telephone was counter-revolutionary.

Facebook connects, according to Facebook, 10 of humanity. This causes much of appetites and fantasies. Fiction is in blends, with a film about the company and its creator, the young billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. Journalist David Kirkpatrick is on the famous social network. In this detailed biography which is much less interested in the human culotté to its business, the reader actually enters Facebook, its premises, its leaders, its projects. In a decade, the rise of the social network, condemned or despised for voyeurism and exhibitionism, was accompanied by multiple controversies on the control and the sale of the personal information collected on the unexpected (for redundancies sometimes) consequences of the disclosure of his private life. Facebook, it is also an entrepreneurial adventure, prosperity and new advertising markets. Certainly, it is a vector of mutation in the ways of life. The future, which could be marred by competitors (Twitter) and the hardening of the legislation, there is nothing obvious. There are in any case a dark side and one side clear in this adventure. This is the double effect of Facebook. Follow on the page which is dedicated ( /thefacebookeffect).