Lanier Jaron: Vi niste gadget

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Author: Lanier Jaron
Publisher: Algoritam
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Vi niste gadget

Lanier Jaron

Summary

Jaron Lanier: You are not a gadget

We are at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by non-persons, says the preface to the insightful, innovative and controversial work "You are not a gadget" by the American artist and computer veteran from Silicon Valley, the founder of the concept of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier.

The words in this book, he predicts, will be read by automatons or numb crowds of people who have long since ceased to act as individuals, only to be ground, copied and dragged through internet search engines by quick and sloppy readers into superficial and inaccurate Wikipedia-like articles. Instead of computers and the Internet being powerful tools for learning, the author believes that they are increasingly turning their users into a bunch of alienated, anonymous individuals embedded in a huge, all-encompassing mind-hive, similar to a monster concept from science fiction stories, for which neither moral nor civil laws apply today.

By consuming the Internet, and especially social networks, people have begun to ignore themselves in the real version and adapt to an artificially designed digital model. themselves. Loss of individuality and concern about group behavior are just some of the consequences. We define ourselves by ready-made answers from Facebook or Twitter, and we take information assembled from many fragments without context as absolute truths, in awe of the high technology that made them possible.

The beehive randomly rearranges fragments of other people's artistic expressions that can be downloaded for free online and thus destroys the original works - print, television and music - while waving slogans about freedom of expression and information, producing impersonal mush. of trivial content and music that has not changed significantly for twenty years. The only original works we can expect to see on the Internet soon will be - advertisements.

Lanier's extensive exploration of the problems and potential of the Internet is destined to become a must-read for critics and advocates of technology and culture based on Internet communication. How to shape technology so that it adapts to the needs of culture, while rejecting the notion that technology shapes us is the key premise of this undeniably important book.

Chapter to read!

#Lanier Jaron