Jaron Lanier _ You Are Not a Gadget
Tonight I began reading this in tandem with The Timeless Way of Building, and there’s an unmistakable dance between them that has my mind fizzing. Written three decades apart and in completely different contexts, both serve as manifestos for richer human experiences; one in the physical world, the other digital. I look forward to unraveling the rest of the conversation between them.
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The central mistake of recent digital culture is to chop up a network of individuals so finely that you end up with a mush. You then start to care about the abstraction of the network more than the real people who are networked, even though the network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.
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