Re: [scifinoir2] You Are Not a Gadget

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Baxter
Can't agree more with this. At times, I can't go near YouTube, for all of the nastiness. And I've run into cyber-praknsters who act without remorse, because the Internert provides a level of impersonality that they feel empowers them to indulge their worse behaviors, without repercussion. And, if

Re: [scifinoir2] You Are Not a Gadget

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Baxter
Another great post, Brent! On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Can't agree more with this. At times, I can't go near YouTube, for all of the nastiness. And I've run into cyber-praknsters who act without remorse, because the Internert provides a level of

[scifinoir2] You Are Not a Gadget

2010-04-04 Thread brent wodehouse
http://www.straight.com/article-301207/vancouver/q-jaron-lanier-author-you-are-not-gadget Q A: Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget By Brian Lynch There’s plenty of people raising warning flags about adverse cultural effects of the Internet, but few of them have the credentials of