Jaron Lanier Rants Against the World of Web 2.0

Posted by timothy on Monday January 4, 2010 @12:48AM from the cue-up-disinterested-erudite-analysis dept.

hao3 writes "In his new book, You Are Not A Gadget, former Wired writer Jaron Lanier bemoans what the internet has become. 'It's early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons,' it begins. The words will be 'minced into anatomized search engine keywords,' then 'copied millions of times by some algorithm somewhere designed to send an advertisement,' and then, in a final insult, 'scanned, rehashed, and misrepresented by crowds of quick and sloppy readers.' Lanier's conclusion: 'Real human eyes will read these words in only a tiny minority of the cases.' He goes on to criticise Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, open-source software and what he calls the 'hive mind.'"

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Very appropiate by gmuslera · 2010-01-04 01:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

"scanned, rehashed, and misrepresented by crowds of sloppy readers"... he KNEW that this will be posted on slashdot.
Re:Can someone summarize this? by Lumpy · 2010-01-04 02:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's because you are not using ReadyBoost(tm) with AstroGlide technology on top of it.

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