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Pierre Bentata: “We have created the infrastructure necessary for the advent of a surveillance society”

2023-04-09T16:28:38.036Z


INTERVIEW - With thumbs, stars, small hearts or rankings, today, we spend our time giving ratings, both to restaurants and taxi drivers or to books and films. In his new essay, All noted!, the economist analyzes this...


FIGAROVOX.

- In your book

All noted!

(Éditions de l'Observatoire), you relate the appearance of the "participatory web" and the revolution that this has generated.

What is it about?

How has this web promoted the democratization of rating systems, with likes, ratings and comments?

Pierre BENTATA.

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Web 2.0, compared to web 1.0, has made interactions between Internet users possible, in particular through platforms.

This is why it is called the “participatory web”.

It has also led to an exponential increase in the information produced and available on search engines.

But the flow of information on the internet then became so important that it was impossible for the human brain to process the different information, to analyze the different sources, to compare the products...

This is why we began to use more and more the small indicators, the rating systems, which already existed before...

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Source: lefigaro

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