Is Technology Making Our Lives Richer or Poorer?

Jaron Lanier

  1. http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11853
    A conversation between Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor covering technology for the New Yorker, and computing pioneer Jaron Lanier. They'll discuss the virtues of technology, but also the ways it has made us less imaginative, more distracted, and less connected to other people. Lanier is one of the founders of "virtual reality," but he has since become the most prominent critic of what technology has wrought. Last year, he published “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto,” a provocative critique of digital technologies, including Wikipedia (which he called a triumph of “intellectual mob rule”) and social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, which Lanier has described as dehumanizing and designed to encourage shallow interactions.

    It's hard NOT to use FB. Uses example of his own love for strange instruments, and getting to know other fans..

    You can always reconceive a digital function...


  2. "Digital stuff's getting really good…manufacturing will go away." As people lose jobs, we must value information. #JaronLanier #SXrichorpoor
  3. Digital stuff is getting really good. Self-driving cars are good, 'cause people are terrible drivers.Ppl lose jobs because of this (truckdrivers, cabs, etc.)3D-printers making ppl lose their manufacturing jobs
    If we treat the ppl as real, and machines as NOT real, we can create deeper meaning.
  4. "We need to value information and treat the people as being real not the machines." #jaronlanier #SXrichorpoor
  5. Lanier: Tech is making jobs go away – we need to treat the people as real and the machines as not real #richorpoor @NEAarts #sxswi
  6. Aristoteles recognized the potential of technology, was very prescient. Said it could free slaves, and more...
  7. Lanier: Aristotle-when the machines operate themselves we can free the slaves #richorpoor @NEAarts #sxswi
  8. Over WalMart:
  9. Lanier: WalMart was the first corp to optimize comuter networks-jobs were optomized away #richorpoor @NEAarts #sxsw
  10. Let's go to 1960 - digital networked media was first proposed - Ted Nelson, still alive, lives in Sausalito.
    Original digital networking vision provided an alternative to Marxism. Nelson made Aristotle-vision come to life.
  11. Lanier: In order to make money – information can’t be copyable. #richorpoor @NEAarts #sxsw
  12. Copying is fundamentally wrong, it should be derivatives of the original #sxsw #richorpoor
  13. Everytime someone makes money from information, they have to use this principle.
    "The internet today is a huge carbon spewing nightmare!"
    1st dumb thing: Sponsor of this lab was Xerox.

  14. OMGosh! To live in the brain of Jaron Lanier! I can't type fast enough to keep up with his great content! #richorpoor #sxsw
  15. When you optimize you shrink an economy per Jaron Lanier #richorpoor #sxsw
  16. When you monitize information you create livlihoods, maybe not necessarily jobs per Jaron Lanier #richorpoor #sxsw
  17. Interessante gedachte om eens op door te gaan:
  18. Facebook should pay people for content they put up .... Makes sense when you sit in my session at #sxsw #richorpoor
  19. Industrywide cooperative sharing is necessary. Netflix XBOX Amazon should be interoperable.
  20. "I think we need to universalize accounts b/w iTunes, Netflix, whatever," Jaron Lanier #richorpoor #sxsw
  21. Jaron Lanier on #richorpoor at #sxsw We need to own & get paid for our info or we impoverish all b/c digital shrinks markets and economies
  22. Nobody follows prohibitions. The very term *prohibitions* means "do this." --Lanier #sxsw #richorpoor
  23. Over de dualiteit in het post-digitale tijdperk:
  24. There are 2 versions of you on social media. The things you see & the data the companies see abt you.--Lanier #sxsw #richorpoor

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