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The world is at a crossroads. The internet and new information technologies are so powerful that no matter what we do, society will change. But the direction has not been decided.

The technology could be used to create a Big Brother society beyond our nightmares, where governments and corporations monitor every detail of our lives. In the former East Germany, the government needed tens of thousands of employees to keep track of the citizens using typewriters, pencils and index cards. Today a computer can do the same thing a million times faster, at the push of a button. There are many politicians who want to push that button.

The same technology could instead be used to create a society that embraces spontaneity, collaboration and diversity. Where the citizens are no longer passive consumers being fed information and culture through one-way media, but are instead active participants collaborating on a journey into the future.

The internet it still in its infancy,

Nästa vecka träffas EU:s justitieministrar, under svensk ledning.

De skall förbereda det så kallade Stockholmsprogrammet – som sedan skall spikas av stats- och regeringscheferna i december.

Stockholmsprogrammet? Några axplock...

• Ett utökat samarbete mellan EU och USA "in the field of freedom, security and justice".
• Nationella anti-terroristcenter i alla EU-stater, som skall rapportera in till Bryssel.
  
• Alla EU-stater skall dela sin underrättelseinformation med alla andra medlemsländer.
• Mer, och mer effektiv, "data-mining".
• Realtidstillgång till uppgifter om till exempel medborgarnas resor, bankaffärer, mobilpositioner, internetanvändning samt till fingeravtryck och porträtt.
• Effektiviserad övervakning genom aktiv insamling av enskilda medborgares elektroniska fotspår.
• EU-standardisering av övervakning.
• EU-harmonisering för att undanröja legala hinder för övervakning och avlyssning.
• Analys på EU-nivå av matrial från medlemsstaternas övervakning och massavlyssning.
• En utökad EU-byråkrati för övervakning, avlyssning och analys, kallad SitCen.

What's inside Google's just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that's what we're doing with some help from the hive mind.

We asked on Twitter what features users wanted to see in Google's Linux-based, web-focused operating system, due to be released in code later this year, then on sponsored netbooks in the second half of 2010. We've compiled nine must-have features that we'd like to see from Google's upcoming operating system here.

This morning the blogosphere is abuzz with the late-breaking news about Google's new Chrome OS, a combination of the Chrome browser and windowing system running on top of a Linux kernel. But more important than what's being announced is what hasn't been said. People already have a lot of questions about the Chrome OS and the answers may ultimately determine how well it succeeds as a true competitor to both Microsoft and Apple, as is being widely speculated. We'll explore some of those questions in this post.

In the second half of 2010, Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS, an operating system designed from the ground up to run the Chrome web browser on netbooks. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” Google writes tonight on its blog.

But let’s be clear on what this really is. This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft. It even says as much in the first paragraph of its post, “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” Yeah, who do you think they mean by that?

And it’s a genius play. So many people are buying netbooks right now, but are running WIndows XP on them. Windows XP is 8 years old. It was built to run on Pentium IIIs and Pentium 4s. Google Chrome OS is built to run on both x86 architecture chips and ARM chips, like the ones increasingly found in netbooks. It is also working with multiple OEMs to get the new OS up and running next year.

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