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PAST & FUTURE OF
DIGITAL NATIVES:
HACK THE FUTURE!
Tristan Nitot
Principal Mozilla Evangelist, Mozilla Europe Founder
[email protected] - twitter: @nitot
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MOZILLA IS...
a global community of people
who believe that
openness, innovation, and opportunity
are key to the continued
health of the Internet.
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We’re known for the
Firefox Web browser
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MOZILLA MANIFESTO (EXCERPTS)
• The Internet is a global public resource that must
remain open and accessible.
• Individuals must have the ability to shape their own
experiences on the Internet.
• The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource
depends upon interoperability (protocols, data
formats, content), innovation and decentralized
participation worldwide.
• Free and open source software promotes the
development of the Internet as a public resource.
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I’M A DIGITAL NATIVE(AN OLD ONE)
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I LEARNED TO HACK ON THESE USING
BASIC, ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE & A SOLDERING IRON
SHARP PC-1500 - Source: Wikipedia
ACORN ATOM - Source: Wikipedia
TRS Model 80 - Source: Wikipedia
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THE MOST HACKABLE MACHINE I OWNED
• BASIC programming
• Disassembler
• extensible with
7 extension slots
• extensive documentation
• Electric schema included
• Screwdriver not needed
to open the case
Tinkering with the
Apple ][ was
encouraged
Source: Wikipedia
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PHYSICAL COMMUNITIES ENCOURAGED
LEARNING, TINKERING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
• Physical spaces to:
• Share knowledge
• Share computers
• Such as:
• Micro-computer clubs
• Centre Mondial de
l’Informatique =>
• Palais de la découverteSource: INA
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NETWORKS ENABLED VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
• Minitel in France
• AOL, Compuserve &
other large proprietary
networks
• Smaller BBS (Bulletin
Board Systems) were
operated from
personal computers.
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LARGE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ENABLE
LARGE SCALE COLLABORATION
Wikipedia:
23 million articles
285 languages
365 million readers
GNU/Linux:
powers more than
90% of today's 500
fastest
supercomputers
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THEN CAME THE WEB
•Simple principles: URL,
HTTP, HTML
•Open Standards
•«View Source» to learn
from existing pages
•No need to buy a SDK:
your text editor is enough
•No need to ask for
permission to participate
The Web belongs to no-one.
It’s an open, public resource
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SOMETHING
OCCURRED TO ME DURING
THIS DIGITAL JOURNEY...
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WHO WRITES THE CODE DECIDES
WHAT THE USER CAN DO
• Developers have a lot of
power over what users
can do
• Without source code,
• you can’t change the
software
• You don’t have the
power to do what you
want
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FREE SOFTWARE HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH PRICE.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE
USER’S FREEDOM
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IN 2011, TABLETS AND
SMARTPHONES COMBINED
OUTSOLD THE PC
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MOBILE INDUSTRY IS DOMINATED BY
PROPRIETARY MOBILE PLATFORMS
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MOBILE CENSORSHIP
Someone decides
for me what I can
or cannot run on
the device I paid
for
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NEW MOBILE RULES LIMIT
PARTICIPATION
Want to develop an APP?
•Get the official SDK / sign for the developer
program
•Use the language and APIs of the platform
•Use the AppStore / Marketplace to reach users
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
•Users are just consumers. They can’t get in the
driver’s seat.
• It’s a lot harder to understand the technology if
you can’t see under the hood
•The next generation of digital natives will discover
computing with smartphones and tablets.
•They will be taught to be passive consumers
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FROM TOTALLY OPEN TO COMPLETELY CLOSED
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FROM TOTALLY OPEN TO COMPLETELY CLOSED
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WHAT CAN WE DO TO EMPOWER
THE NEXT GENERATION OF
DIGITAL NATIVES?
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WE NEED
•Educated users
•An open platform for mobile
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This is exactly what
is working on
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EDUCATE USERS: WEBMAKER.ORG
Empower users so that the Web is not Read-Only
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BUILD AN OPEN MOBILE PLATFORM
Firefox OS
Complete, standalone
operating system for the
open Web, built entirely
using HTML5 & standard
Web APIs
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EVERYTHING IS A WEB PAGE!
Variations around the
Home screen
Variations around
the incoming call screen
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FIREFOX OS: HOW AN OPEN WEB PHONE
CONNECTS HTML5 TO HARDWARE
Web Browser/Platform
Native API-based UI
Kernel (e.g. Android, iOS,
Win7, etc.)
Device (phone, tablet,
desktop)
APIs
Web-based User Experience/Web
Content
Kernel
Device
Web Engine/ Standard Device
APIs
Existing Platforms(smartphones only)
Firefox OS
Significantly
smaller stack:
Scales from
high-end
feature phones
to high-end
smartphones}
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MARKETPLACE: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
FIREFOX
MARKETPLACE
Content owners can use the
Firefox Marketplace to
enhance discoverability
and make monetization
easier.
They can also sell directly
(going through the
marketplace is optional)
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FIREFOX OS DEMO
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AND NOW?
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MOZILLA NEEDS YOUR HELP
TO BUILD THE DIGITAL
FUTURE WE WANT,
NOT THE ONE THAT’S HANDED
DOWN TO US
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HOW TO HELP
•Contribute to Mozilla:
•http://www.mozilla.org/contribute
•Build Mobile Web Apps:
•https://marketplace.firefox.com/
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THANK YOU
@nitot