Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

Activity

You added a note
8 years, 11 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 Who Owns the Future? Some First Principles (245) by Jaron Lanier
You added a note
8 years, 11 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
You added a section
8 years, 11 months ago
You added a note
8 years, 11 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
You added a section
8 years, 11 months ago