Yes, I actually agree with what Sage is saying -- there are some deep thoughts in Lanier's book. Especially how platforms like Facebook are disintegrating the meaning behind words like "friend"..
~ ~ ~ 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 3:25 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > 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." > > Yeah, I'm in the middle of it now, and if you're willing to be a > sympathetic reader and look past the parts where he just doesn't know > what he's talking about, it's actually one of the more original > perspectives on cyberculture and the relationship between technology > and culture. Certainly it's worth taking more seriously than Andrew > Keen's book. > > -Sage > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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