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Jaron Lanier
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Some First Principles
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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.
yes pls
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.
yes pls
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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.
or ... Facebook should just be a government-run utility (he does say it's becoming more like one in the previous paragraph)
I guess the argument against that is: if the govt is the only body that has legitimate use of force, then there is a fear that it will use the data it has on you for malicious purposes. that is a valid fear when you view govt as a bad thing, something that's not accountable, but does it have to be that way? think about this more
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.
or ... Facebook should just be a government-run utility (he does say it's becoming more like one in the previous paragraph)
I guess the argument against that is: if the govt is the only body that has legitimate use of force, then there is a fear that it will use the data it has on you for malicious purposes. that is a valid fear when you view govt as a bad thing, something that's not accountable, but does it have to be that way? think about this more