The Politics of Micro-Decisions
Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Architectures of the Internet
☙ Posté le 21-04-2015 | ➡ LIRE
Be it in the case of opening a website, sending an email, or high-frequency trading, bits and bytes of information have to cross numerous nodes at which micro-decisions are made. These decisions concern the most efficient path through the network, the processing speed, or the priority of incoming data packets. Despite their multifaceted nature, micro-decisions are a dimension of control and surveillance in the twenty-first century that has received little critical attention.