The father of Virtual Reality Jaron Lanier takes on Web 2.0

Michael Uhlenkott
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Jan. 16, 2010

Jaron Lanier's book "You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto" is all the buzz on the web this week.



Lanier takes on what's become conventional wisdom about Web 2.0. You know that Facebook, My Space and YouTube, Blogspot... are celebrating the individual.



We don't need a TV deal, we have YouTube.



Facebook tells you who I am!



And when individuals submit everything they know? The collective knowledge is perfect knowledge.



CyberFrequencies been guilty of promoting this point of view but Lanier spins out a dystopic future.



Web 2.0 rests on the ideology that the universe is made of computations and we, the people, need to keep feeding information to Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. The final quest? Eternal life.



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Michael
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Gee, who knew that the concept of a file and file systems originated with a rash Steve Jobs? What a load of baloney.

This guy obviously has no clue about the history of computer architecture. Yes, there are experimental file systems fused with database concepts for organizing data. But the notion of files has been part of storage design for decades before Apple came along!

Queena Kim
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Hi Michael - Sorry you got the impression that the file originated from Steve Jobs.
Actually, that wasn't what Lanier meant -- in the book he mentions that files were around and Jobs was influenced by the IBM folks who used files.

-Queena

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