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relations,corporatememory,monitoring, control,anddemandtounderstandthe Theframeworkofmylongtermresearch newsystemasawhole.Thatprocess iswritteninproposalIfirstwrotefor bindstogether,asNathanEnsmengerin 'ComputerBoysTakeOverwrites, JanVanEyckAcademie.Itis: machines,people,andprocessesinan RulingClassStudiesinsearchfor inextricablyinterconnectedand interdependentsystemwhichnevergoes criticaltheoreticalinstrumentsto withoutconflict,negotiation,disputes measurethepolitical,ethicaland professionalaccountabilityofitscase overprofessionalauthority,andthe conflationofsocial,political,and studies:Google,Facebook,Amazonand technologicalagendas.Softwareis eBay(GFAeB)totheirproclaimed missions,advertisedpractices,andtoa perhapstheultimateheterogeneous worldwheretheirmonopoliesaretaking technology.Itexistssimultaneouslyas root.Onlyafterthatwecanseriously anidea,language,technology,and practice. considerthescaleandscopeofany (possible)emancipationenabledbythe emergingdigitalnetworkparadigm.Link Tounderstandthecomplexityatwhich GFAeBoperatesIthinkoneshouldbe tothewholedocument: http://www.scribd.com/doc/30054819/Rulin introducedtoideasofUniversalMachine &Distributed,DecentralizedNetworks. gClassStudiesResearchproposal InthefirstyearofmyresearchatJan GFAeBarestateoftheartofthefield ofcomputertechnologydevelopedoutof vanEyckIcameupwithtwomajor aninterplaybetweenscience, milestones: engineering,businessandthemilitary, TracingConcepts(collaborationwith andhasbeencharacterizedbya versatilegroupofexperts,amateurs, EdwinGardner)aprojectexploring tracesofdifferentideasandconcepts hackersandcountercultural enthusiasts. in(andinbetween)different disciplines.Thefirstphaseofthis WithmycontributionstoTracing collaborationmaterializedasa ConceptsIintroducedthevocabularyand contribution(20/25pages)tothe narrativeexplainingtheconceptual forthcomingissue28ofVolume magazinewhereitgotstatusaparte foundationaroundtheideaofUniversal Machinethatleadsmanytothefantasies soitwasprintedalsoasseparate thatcomputeralgorithmscouldrecreate booklet.Link: theuniverse.ThesefantasiesletGFAeB http://tracingconcepts.net employerstoidentifywiththeir Visualizar11RulingClassStudies corporationsvisions/missionsand wasselectedasoneofthetenprojectsbelievetheycanchangetheworldinto betterplace. fortheinternationalproject developmentworkshopandatheoretical seminarVisualizar11atMedialabPradoInmyfutureresearchIwouldliketo inMadrid.ThereIfinishedthefirst introducethevocabularyandhistorical phaseinmappingandvisualizationof narrativearoundtheideaof Distributed,DecentralizedNetworks. Googleswebsearchservice infrastructure.Thevisualizationwas Thisisthestoryofhowpersonal basedonminimalsoftwaredependency computerparadigmtogetherwithFLOSS graphwhichisneededtomake (Free/LibreOpenSourceSoftware) equivalentofGoogle'stechnical approachtodevelopmentprocessgot infrastructureandtheestimationof appropriatedbyGFAeBandother howmanydevelopers,yearsin developmentandmoneyoneshouldneed companiesandwasdevelopedrecently intothecloudcomputing. inordertodevelopallofthatfrom scratch.Link:http://wiki.medialab prado.es/index.php/Ruling_Class_Studies Todayisthetimeoftransitionfrom terabytestopetabytesdatasetswhereit Softwareisasociotechnicalsystem isnomorepossibletohaveaone computerstoringalloftherelevant inwhichcomputingtechnologymeets data.TheBigDataorwhatMicrosoft socialrelationships,organizational ResearchcallsThefourthparadigm politics,andpersonalagendas.Every timeanorganizationstartstoimplement (http://research.microsoft.com/en us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/)in softwareitwillneedtorestructure science,businessandtechnologybrings itselfinordertoaccommodatenew procedures,flowsofinformation,social thewholenewworldofforthcoming

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innovationswhichwillnotbeanymore connectedtothemarketofpersonal computersorconsumerelectronics.The infrastructureofcloudcomputingtoday isalmostexclusivelyincontrolofbig corporations.Theywilldesignand controlthefuturetechnologiesof accesstoBigData(programming languages,domainspecificlanguages, APIsetc.).Itisnotasurprisethat alloftheirResearch&Development departmentsarebigadvocatesofopening governmental,climate,scientific, genome,medicineandallotherknown datasets. Thegoodsignisthattheyperceive themselvesastheworldmostprogressive visionariesandutopian.Thebadsignis thatworldperceivethemasjustanother corporations.InRelationship:It's complicated. Ihopemyresearchcanbringsome insightsintothatworld.