Findings - Jaron Lanier Is Rethinking the Open Nature of the Internet - NYTimes.com - 11 views
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Wildcat2030 wildcat on 13 Jan 10"When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs? In the 1990s, Jaron Lanier was one of the digital pioneers hailing the wonderful possibilities that would be realized once the Internet allowed musicians, artists, scientists and engineers around the world to instantly share their work. Now, like a lot of us, he is having second thoughts. Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist - he popularized the term "virtual reality" - wonders if the Web's structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, "You Are Not a Gadget," is a manifesto against "hive thinking" and "digital Maoism," by which he means the glorification of open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity."
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Jack Logan on 01 Feb 10Still 30-below! lol
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Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10it's a balmy -11 now, breaking out the beach shorts tomorrow