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

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Wow, you live in my head. *stares*

It also appears to deal with the "virtual mob culture" as I like to call it, which appears to pertain to the pirates. Where "sharing" is a positive value and the artist and his/her needs are sacrificed for the "positive feelings" of the masses.

(Which then feeds into the victim complex of some artists).

I'll go grab it, hoping it won't make me (even more) angry.