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You are not a gadget : a manifesto

by Jaron Lanier

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Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices with enormous-and often unintended-consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. Lanier warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. This book is a deeply felt defense of the individual, from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.--From publisher description.… (more)
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I saw the author speak at UNCW about 12 years ago and noted in my journal that he gave an interesting talk and the only thing I went into detail was about his enthusiasm about cuttlefish and how that best we can do as humans is to be like them. This book isn't all about that, but he does throw in a mention of the amazing cuttlefish. ( )
  MakebaT | Sep 3, 2022 |
eye opening read. one of those books that makes you think why didn't i think of that before. and then i get to the bit where he does write about something i thought about recently. its always great when somebody else backs up your own theory's. this book backed up some of my theory's and opened my eyes to many many more possibilities and pathways that technology may be headed down, but doesn't necessarily have to. ( )
  zetetic23 | Aug 2, 2022 |
A fairly thoughtful book on tech policy-related issues, but I think Neil Postman does this better. Lanier is too pessimistic in his assessment of the "mob mentality" of the Internet, but makes some valid cautionary points. He also overreaches in his criticism of the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, and doesn't seem to me to have enough appreciation for the true cultural value of Linux and other projects. That's unfortunate, because Lanier moves on to denigrate modern culture as "retro", but fails to note how subjective critiques like his can be. For these reasons and more, I found his attack on social networking and digital advertising pretty unpersuasive. This is still a good book to read for diehard geeks or those in tech policy positions in government-- it may provoke thought, even if Lanier's conclusions prove unsatisfying. ( )
  wyclif | Sep 22, 2021 |
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Mente colmena-- crowdwisdom. Wikipedia-- consenso=desparición de autoria/individualidad--- dilución de la individualidad, creando un conocimiento suprahumano.

Totalitarismo cibernetico.

Sistema TEd Nelson -- pago canon directo al autor por cada acceso a productos de creación individual accesibles en la red.
" La expresión creativa en la red se beneficiaría de un contrato social que imponga un modesto grado de escasez artificial a la información"
"nunca dejamos constancia del verdadero coste de la existencia del dinero porque la mayoria de nosotros aportamos tiempo voluntario para mantener el contrato social que da su valor al dinero. Nadie te paga el tiempo que te tomas a diario para asegurarte de que llevas dinero en la cartera o para pagar las facturas... o por el tiempo que pasas preocupandote por todo. Si ese tiempo fuera reembolsado, el dinero se volveria una herramienta demasiado cara para una sociedad"

" El material más original que existe gratis en la red abierta se parece, con demasiada frecuencia, al material más barato del mundo del copyright real, asediado y pasado de moda. Es un desfile interminable de noticias raras, estúpdos trucos de mascotas y vídeos caseros grabados"
Habida cuenta que la red está matando a los antiguos medios, nos enfrentamos a una situación en la que la cultura se está comiendo efectivamente su propia provision de semillas

-thinkquest// wikipedfia
-ideologia de colmena
-el sentido del olfato como irreproducible por IA
-morphing (como transformador cognocitivo) como pulpos IA* gadgets=comunicación postsimbólica ( )
  MRMP | Jan 9, 2021 |
19

Mente colmena-- crowdwisdom. Wikipedia-- consenso=desparición de autoria/individualidad--- dilución de la individualidad, creando un conocimiento suprahumano.

Totalitarismo cibernetico.

Sistema TEd Nelson -- pago canon directo al autor por cada acceso a productos de creación individual accesibles en la red.
" La expresión creativa en la red se beneficiaría de un contrato social que imponga un modesto grado de escasez artificial a la información"
"nunca dejamos constancia del verdadero coste de la existencia del dinero porque la mayoria de nosotros aportamos tiempo voluntario para mantener el contrato social que da su valor al dinero. Nadie te paga el tiempo que te tomas a diario para asegurarte de que llevas dinero en la cartera o para pagar las facturas... o por el tiempo que pasas preocupandote por todo. Si ese tiempo fuera reembolsado, el dinero se volveria una herramienta demasiado cara para una sociedad"

" El material más original que existe gratis en la red abierta se parece, con demasiada frecuencia, al material más barato del mundo del copyright real, asediado y pasado de moda. Es un desfile interminable de noticias raras, estúpdos trucos de mascotas y vídeos caseros grabados"
Habida cuenta que la red está matando a los antiguos medios, nos enfrentamos a una situación en la que la cultura se está comiendo efectivamente su propia provision de semillas

-thinkquest// wikipedfia
-ideologia de colmena
-el sentido del olfato como irreproducible por IA
-morphing (como transformador cognocitivo) como pulpos IA* gadgets=comunicación postsimbólica ( )
  MRMP | Jan 9, 2021 |
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"a work of staggering apostasy by one of cyberspace's founding fathers, Jaron Lanier"
added by jodi | editGuardian, Simon Ings (Nov 17, 2011)
 
Overall, the book is a delight; it gives us the privilege of riding inside Lanier's "adventurous individual imagination that is distinct from the crowd."
 
As Lanier sees it, MIDI has stripped personality and weirdness out of music for the past twenty years... It's a neatly delivered and convincing argument. Alas, it is pretty much Lanier's only such argument. The rest of his manifesto is maddeningly vague and nearly incoherent.
added by grelobe | editBookforum, Clive Thompson (Feb 1, 2010)
 
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It's early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons—automatons or numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals.
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Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web's first designers made crucial choices with enormous-and often unintended-consequences. What's more, these designs quickly became "locked in," a permanent part of the web's very structure. Lanier warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. This book is a deeply felt defense of the individual, from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.--From publisher description.

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