The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
BUMMER: A Simple Acronym Sums up What’s Wrong With Social Media Behaviors of Users Modified and Made into Empires for Rent The book: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts See Also: Lanier @ Phi Beta Iota
Lanier: Silicon Valley Making the “Stupid Choice” This piece by NYT columnist Joe Nocera on his read of Jaron Lanier’s book Who Owns the Future is thought-provoking and worth serious consideration by policy makers in the government especially, if only because colossal Silicon Valley greed blinds technology companies to the economic destruction their technology is …
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The Dark Side of Information Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:46 PM PDT Free information will be our doom, Quartz‘s Jaron Lanier asserts in, “Free Information, as Great as it Sounds, Will Enslave Us All.” From high-frequency trading to online marketing, insists Lanier, big data is being used by those with the resources to collect and …
“Digital Maoism” (2006) In his online essay “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism”, in Edge magazine in May 2006, Lanier criticized the sometimes-claimed omniscience of collective wisdom (including examples such as the Wikipedia article about himself), describing it as “digital Maoism“.[11] He writes “If we start to believe that the Internet itself …
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Jaron Lanier, one of the Founding Fathers of Virtual Reality and outspoken critic of Web 2.0, gives a presentation at Personal Democracy Forum 2012 in NYC on Cyber-Plutocracy. Lanier portrays Web 2.0 as a polarized-space where the Monopolization of Data/Network-Based Wealth co-exist side-by-side with the Open-Communities egalitarian drive for establishing Open-Information/Networking/Abundance. While Lanier views ‘Open’ …
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*A Stockholm Syndrome of the Soul: Proto-Intelligence for the Evolution of Collective Thought* *Preface* “[Nothing] is [certain]. There is so much mystery involving consciousness…these are just ideas to play around with and to entertain rather than [some] new form of certitude.” – Jeremy Narby, Anthropologist and Author of The Cosmic Serpent This book is not …
