What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 2 views
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Chris Swift on 28 Dec 12The internet is not amazing, rather it "destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to "social catastrophe.". What do you think?
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Study Hub on 02 Jan 13Thanks for this reference - very thoughtful and thought-provoking. Don't quite know what to 'do' with the information... a simple rubric could be to use the web the same way that Carl Rogers advises us to teach - with unconditional positive regard, congruence and empathy. Which is okay when you are still dealing with people - it gets so much complicated when we must perforce deal with or through impersonal monetised systems like Google or FaceBook.