On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/08/2010 08:13 PM, Fred Benenson wrote: >> >> And his book you are not a gadget, though its not really buying a copy >> for his uninformed rants. > > http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=392 > > "Jaron Lanier's book "You Are Not A Gadget" is a timely polemic, a cry of > the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. I found reading it a > frustrating and inspiring experience. For every time I wanted to throw the > book at the wall in exasperation there was a time where Lanier spoke to a > part of me that the cultural transition from 90s cyberpunk to 2010s > cyberpreppy had optimised out. > > Lanier is asking the right questions. [...] > The problem is that Lanier's answers crash and burn from a lack of detailed > knowledge of non-cyber culture."
Yeah, I'm in the middle of it now, and if you're willing to be a sympathetic reader and look past the parts where he just doesn't know what he's talking about, it's actually one of the more original perspectives on cyberculture and the relationship between technology and culture. Certainly it's worth taking more seriously than Andrew Keen's book. -Sage _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
