Not sure its only a lack of detailed knowledge of non-cyber culture, its the open web in general. He's totally mixed up the priorities of the free culture / free software movement and seems insistent on slandering projects like Wikipedia.
~ ~ ~ thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog work / http://kickstarter.com sights / http://flickr.com/fcb sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis status / http://twitter.com/mecredis On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/08/2010 08:13 PM, Fred Benenson wrote: > >> >> And his book you are not a gadget, though its not really buying a copy >> for his uninformed rants. >> > > http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=392 > > "Jaron Lanier's book "You Are Not A Gadget" is a timely polemic, a cry of > the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. I found reading it a > frustrating and inspiring experience. For every time I wanted to throw the > book at the wall in exasperation there was a time where Lanier spoke to a > part of me that the cultural transition from 90s cyberpunk to 2010s > cyberpreppy had optimised out. > > Lanier is asking the right questions. [...] > The problem is that Lanier's answers crash and burn from a lack of detailed > knowledge of non-cyber culture." > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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