by
Jaron Lanier
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Prelude
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Motivation
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A Simple Idea
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Money as Seen Through One Computer Scientist's Eyes
he does at least cite David Graeber here
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Money as Seen Through One Computer Scientist's Eyes
he does at least cite David Graeber here
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"Siren Servers"
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Third Interlude: Modernity Conceives the Future
here he has 10 tropes (he calls them "humors") that fit together society & technology
- Theocracy: politics is the means to supernatural immortality (i.e., a religious one)
- Abundance: technology as a means of transcending material scarcity and thus politics
- Malthus: politics will lead to material extinction through overpopulation etc
- Rousseau: technology is the means to spiritual malaise; our human identities will falter
- Invisible Hand: information technology ought to subsume politics, as markets magically fix everything
- Marx: politics ought to subsume information technology (once we get abundance, we'll need politics indefinitely to ensure people get what they need)
- H. G. Wells: technology will create human meaning through threats to our existence (aliens, machines--not sure how tech will create aliens tho)
- Strangelove: nuclear annihilation for everyone
- Turing: soon only technology will exist
- Nelson: (after Ted Nelson, the Computer Lib guy) we can have tech that's designed in such a way to keep people as they are, without having to result to extreme politics
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Third Interlude: Modernity Conceives the Future
here he has 10 tropes (he calls them "humors") that fit together society & technology
- Theocracy: politics is the means to supernatural immortality (i.e., a religious one)
- Abundance: technology as a means of transcending material scarcity and thus politics
- Malthus: politics will lead to material extinction through overpopulation etc
- Rousseau: technology is the means to spiritual malaise; our human identities will falter
- Invisible Hand: information technology ought to subsume politics, as markets magically fix everything
- Marx: politics ought to subsume information technology (once we get abundance, we'll need politics indefinitely to ensure people get what they need)
- H. G. Wells: technology will create human meaning through threats to our existence (aliens, machines--not sure how tech will create aliens tho)
- Strangelove: nuclear annihilation for everyone
- Turing: soon only technology will exist
- Nelson: (after Ted Nelson, the Computer Lib guy) we can have tech that's designed in such a way to keep people as they are, without having to result to extreme politics
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Narcissism
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Story Lost
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Story Found
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Complaint Is Not Enough
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The Project
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Some First Principles
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Who Will Do What?
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Big Business
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Risk
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Financial Identity
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Inclusion
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The Interface to Reality
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Creepy
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The Transition
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Leadership
here he acknowledges that govts have been maligned as of late, but they did manage to get a lot done in his parents' age, so maybe govts will come back one day (he does seem to be somewhat pro-gov here)
his other suggestion is that a bunch of big time CEOs get together and hash out the details of this new monetised data economy, which seems terrifyingly plausible (maybe it'll be their only option for keeping capitalism alive, idk)
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Leadership
here he acknowledges that govts have been maligned as of late, but they did manage to get a lot done in his parents' age, so maybe govts will come back one day (he does seem to be somewhat pro-gov here)
his other suggestion is that a bunch of big time CEOs get together and hash out the details of this new monetised data economy, which seems terrifyingly plausible (maybe it'll be their only option for keeping capitalism alive, idk)
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