Fascinating book ...

[blamebrampton]

I really like the sound of the book discussed in this article, has anyone read it?

 

vashtan , I think you in particular would like it. An excerpt:

Lanier, who is a scholar-in residence at the University of California and a partner architect with Microsoft, also noticed a disturbing tendency among the champions of the internet's "open culture" to humiliate and attack those who had lost out in the online revolution - the musicians, artists, journalists and others.

These and a dozen other observations led Lanier to conclude that something had gone terribly wrong: that we had reached a point where the network was being exalted as far more important than any individual. It is a thesis he explores in his book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.

 

Comments

[romaine24.livejournal.com]

*pays for the first round*

It's funny I just read a book for a book club sponsored by my company. It's done over telecon and webex. O.O The book is titled: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink. It came out a few years ago.

Anyway, one of the main premises is that creativity is what will end up being valued the most, including financially. The arts including music, drawing, storytelling, design, etc... is what companies will need to succeed. It's an interesting and thought provoking book. It's written in layman's terms and is especially written for right brain folks. LOL I mainly work with engineers, so it was all kind of fun.

It's going to be rocky until things get figured out in the publishing world and news world. Some of it is quite welcomed but giving a voice and credentials as a spokesperson based on popularity is quite scary.

I never thought that writers or journalists haven't moved with the new model, it seems more like the owners and management fought the change instead of embracing what was coming and spending the time and energy to figure out how to make it work for their customers, their employees, and their business as a whole.