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You are not a gadget - book by Jaron Lanier - 0 views

  • The problem is not inherent in the Internet or the Web.  Deterioration only began around the turn of the century with the rise of so-called “Web 2.0” designs.  These designs valued the information content of the web over individuals.  It became fashionable to aggregate the expressions of people into dehumanized data.  There are so many things wrong with this that it takes a whole book to summarize them.  Here’s just one problem:  It screws the middle class.  Only the aggregator (like Google, for instance) gets rich, while the actual producers of content get poor.  This is why newspapers are dying.  It might sound like it is only a problem for creative people, like musicians or writers, but eventually it will be a problem for everyone.  When robots can repair roads someday, will people have jobs programming those robots, or will the human programmers be so aggregated that they essentially work for free, like today’s recording musicians?  Web 2.0 is a formula to kill the middle class and undo centuries of social progress.
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    Jaron Lanier about how in the short devolopment of the internet it became fashionable to aggregate expressions of people into dehumanized data.
sylvester roepstorff

Jaron Lanier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

  • "You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning.
  • sterile style of wiki writing is undesirable because: it removes the touch with the real author of original information, it filters the subtlety of his opinions, essential information (eg. incl. graphical context of original sources) is lost, it creates the false sense of authority behind the information,
  • Lanier's position is that humans may not be considered as the biological computers
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  • biggest problem of any theory (esp. ideology) is not that it is false, but when it claims to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality.
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      It's almost banal but actually said by so few - and so important.
sylvester roepstorff

GOOD Home Page - GOOD - 1 views

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    Omfattende og grundigt politisk og kulturelt webmagasin.
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    Er ikke nået til det grundige endnu, kun en række kortere artikler, men det er også godt det samme. Læste den om Delicious og lod mig især ramme af følgende: "Two Internet entrepreneurs are hunting the Great White Whale of the web, the problem that results from following hundreds of people on Twitter, reading dozens of blogs, keeping 15 browser tabs open at a time and participating in social media from Facebook to Google+: There's just too much data coming in for the human mind to process." Og jeg er oven i købet hverken på Facebook eller Google+ ...
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collaborative information retrieval (CIR) - 0 views

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    A study in collaborative information retrieval, that is: how the social aspects functions in information retrieval.
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