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

are our fortunes only temporary?

[...] If everything will be free, why are we trying to corner anything? Are our fortunes only temporary? Will they become moot when we're done?

—p.128 Who Owns the Future? Third Interlude: Modernity Conceives the Future (123) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

accounting fraud in a humanistic information economy

[...] self-driving cars will depend on cloud data about streets, pedestrians, and everything else that can affect a trip. That information will be renewed constantly, with every single ride. Will the rider be compensated beyond a free ride for helping to generate this information? To do otherwise w…

—p.92 From Below: Mass Unemployment Events (85) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

the only way back to a truer form of capitalism archive/dissertation

[...] Undoing the Siren Server pattern is the only way back to a truer form of capitalism.

—p.78 Some Pioneering Siren Servers (69) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years, 7 months ago

lower prices vs lowered job prospects

It's certainly reasonable to expect that making economic activities more efficient ought to increase opportunity for everyone in the longer term. However, you can't really compare the two sides of the equation, of lower prices and lowered job prospects.

This is so obviously the case that it seem…

—p.73 Some Pioneering Siren Servers (69) by Jaron Lanier
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undermines the very idea of markets and capitalism

"Disruption" by the use of digital network technology undermines the very idea of markets and capitalism. Instead of economics being about a bunch of players with unique positions in a market, we devolve toward a small number of spying operations in omniscient positions, which means that eventually…

—p.67 The Specter of the Perfect Investment (59) by Jaron Lanier