Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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in order to fund social welfare

We do have rules in place to charge commercial concerns for using the public airwaves. Maybe that model could be extended to information flows in general. The argument would be that every citizen contributes to the information space whether they want to or not. Everyone is measured and tracked in t…

—p.234 Who Owns the Future? The Project (233) by Jaron Lanier
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the sources of information can be paid for it

[...] If the system remembers where information originally came from, then the people who are the sources of information can be paid for it.

—p.226 First Thought, Best Thought (221) by Jaron Lanier
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some libertarians are convinced

This reminds me of the way some libertarians are convinced that lower taxes will always guarantee a wealthier society. The math is wrong; outcomes from complex systems are actually filled with peaks and valleys.

—p.210 Clout Must Underlie Rights, if Rights Are to Persist (205) by Jaron Lanier