Via New York Times:
Technologists are often utopianists. No one writer understands this bizarre world view better than Jaron Lanier. In his latest book, “Who Owns The Future?” Lanier critiques our current digital economy with an incredible wealth of insider’s knowledge, making a case that links rising income inequality to the spread of what he calls Siren Servers — data-gathering companies, basically. He warns that we have a bad track record of accurately predicting the speed with which technology advances and that, in the future, many more middle-class jobs will disappear to intelligent-seeming machines.
Considering the Horror of Zuckerbergian Dystopias - NYTimes.com
Ponder: “Whatever technological dystopia awaits us, it’s at once hilarious and mortifying to think that the road there might be paved with asinine status updates, cat pictures and listicles.”
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