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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7 years, 7 months ago

wealth earned, not entitlement

In a humanistic information economy, as people age, they will collect royalties on value they brought into the world when they were younger. This seems to me to be a highly moral use of information technology. It remembers the right data. The very idea that our world is construed in such a way that…

—p.254 Who Owns the Future? Who Will Do What? (253) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

the death of Facebook must be an option

The death of Facebook must be an option if it is to be a company at all. Therefore your online identity should not be fundamentally grounded in Facebook or something similar.

—p.250 Some First Principles (245) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

capitalism will collapse

If the information economy is to evolve on its present track, so that each player is either running a Siren Server or is an ordinary person ricocheting between two extremes of noncapitalism, between fake free and fake ownership, then markets will eventually shrink and capitalism will collapse.

—p.247 Some First Principles (245) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

Google has started to share ad revenue

The pattern repeats in most of the cases where people are starting to find careers in the new information economy. A small number of people make some money from YouTube videos, for instance, because Google has started to share ad revenue with top stars. This is a great development, but the number i…

—p.242 We Need to Do Better than Ad Hoc Levees (239) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

a nice day's earnings for you

[...] "Your arch has been replicated fifty-eight times around the world. Check out this giant version from a beach in Rio." Through the mixed-reality glasses, you and your friends find yourselves sharing a beach with revelers in Rio.

Wow, a nice day's earnings for you. "Seagull, that casino near…

—p.237 The Project (233) by Jaron Lanier