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Jaron Lanier
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Fifth Interlude: The Wise Old Man in the Clouds
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[...] In this approach, the contents of books would be atomized into bits of information to be aggregated, and the authors themselves, the feeling of their voices, their differing perspectives, would be lost. Needless to say, this approach would hide its tracks so that it would be hard to send a nanopayment to an author who had been aggregated.
on Google's book-scanning project
he completely misses the point that this is exactly what he is proposing re: other algorithms T_T
[...] In this approach, the contents of books would be atomized into bits of information to be aggregated, and the authors themselves, the feeling of their voices, their differing perspectives, would be lost. Needless to say, this approach would hide its tracks so that it would be hard to send a nanopayment to an author who had been aggregated.
on Google's book-scanning project
he completely misses the point that this is exactly what he is proposing re: other algorithms T_T