Stanford Seminar - Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research 

There’s kind of a golden generation of technologists who knew the world before the personal computer, and saw the potential of the early internet. I consider myself a part of that group. We learned it all from the ground up, as it was being created. We all assumed the younger generations of computer scientists and thinkers would go sailing past us in their depth of understanding but that hasn’t happened. The younger generations use the existing tools of technology to build on what’s already there without learning what they are and what they mean, so they don’t see the potential, the wonder, the humanity and freedom of it. I don’t blame them, it’s so much to learn. But there’s an extreme nihilism at the heart of “technology business” today. It’s basically “get seed money, crank out something resembling something valuable, as fast as possible, sell it to a bigger company.” People ARE NOT building companies around what technology can do for humanity. They’re not even seriously thinking about customers. They are only considering whether an idea can generate revenue, mainly by either getting acquired or by going public by IPO. The net outcome is papier mache technology, poorly devised and poorly implemented, which isn’t really good for anyone and never really achieves anything. It’s like all the junk particle board furniture made in china sold on Wayfair. No innovation, no soul, no real value, and nobody’s particularly happy about it.

@@baTonkaTruck i am on a limp journey trying to learn from the ground up. what i come to see is that those old guys really meant something when they equate programming with a form of expression. this is what i think is the heart of the issue. it's a form of self expression turning into a trade. that's like creative writers turning to blogs and news articles. as you commercialize it, it conforms to the businesses and business owners, which have to look at ads or subscriptions. i don't think it's the investors/founders fault. this is what happens when you think money first, but for true freedom of expression, art is not done with money in mind. it may be commercialized after it is created. it's not that it's not possible to think creatively and then monetize after the fact. it's as you said, the incentive is to get paid first, "prove" it can make money, then build. that said, i actually think transformative visual media is one of the better technologies. how wonderful is it young (and old) creators are sharing their art with each other on tiktok/instagram? games on the other hand seem to rely too heavily on tools lately, which make their games clunkier and less engaging than it needs to be. it's the same issue as above, the gaming industry has blown up and it's impossible to think about building a game without the thought of getting a return.

It’s underlied by the maximizing and ever increasing profit is the first and only ethic we can agree is good. It’s at the core of our economic model particularly in practice in the US (compared to other western nations, perhaps because we’re such a diverse country and don’t have the sense of deep rooted ethnic brotherhood others feel with their countrymen, speculation of course but I can see something suggesting this just in how cops treat non-whites versus whites in the US, it also might be the diversity of values too that our first amendment encourages and our ethnic diversity ensures) and it’s just not any longer viable in this form without some serious collapsing it seems. The problem is I’m really not sure what to do about it.

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Hell yeah!

Note how empirically minded he is! Politicians tend to ignore results other than vote counts, sadly.

He'd be great to cast as a wise elder in a Utopian-flavored sci-fi film that takes place in the 2040's right before the Singularity occurs.

Politicians in the UK don't care about people, they only care about self serving ideologies.

vote for him

Globalists/The Elites: thinks that, too

@@SPDATA1 Do you trust conservative billionaires more than liberal billionaires ?!

@@CyberspacedLoner Wrong question. Trust people. Billionaires, liberals, and a conservatives are not people at all, but just members of groups. Trust people. Don’t trust members of groups. Members of groups cannot think or reason. In fact members of groups aren’t actually real people at all, they either exist as concepts in the minds of other people(groups). Or they exist as partial people, only partially functioning and only partially awake. I’ll point out here that seeing someone as a member of a group only is also very degrading and is used as a way to deconstruct another’s humanity. Kind of leaves us all stuck and quibbling over petty group alliances.

+jeffreydebra1 Informational or informative? Are you saying there is a lot of data but no point?

And are the horses better for it?

He really is. It’s easy to tell simply by listening.

Your comment is from 2 years ago, but I will reply in case you are still wondering! XD The reason incentive cards put people in a diminished role is because the grocery corporation is tracking your purchasing habits with the card. They are acquiring YOUR data (which has substantial value) for the price of slightly discounted goods. If you were paid for that data, you would earn substantially more than the sum of the discounts you earn.

overhaul*

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The whole world is a consumer class

are you for real?

***** Do you know the answer to the question I asked or did you just think now would be a good time to try out that Turing Test?

Seth Derrick yeh, it's MOOCs with a C, stands for Massive Online Open Course. check out 'mit ocw', 'coursera' or 'edx'. The turing test is stupid btw

Seth Derrick I didn't mean to be rude, I actually thought you were trying to be funny. MOOCs are a really big thing

***** No worries, thanks for the info. I'm very familiar with the model...from MIT and Stanford to Kahn Academy...and from the context I figured that's what he was talking about. I just wasn't familiar with the acronym. Thanks again.

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can you explain? 3 yrs old...

Huh?

Spencer Ferri it's the only way for free self employed people. Create your product to satisfy specific needs of local geographic identity. Use the tools available and imprint your unic expression.

Spencer Ferri - you had 5, what’s the word?

How far?

6 years have passed - I love this idea, and I need a job!

Sure they were socialist Don't kid yourself . It is history which really shows what a system is not just their theory

we're waiting, edward..

+rabokel Yeah, and it is working so successfully when we are many trillions of dollars in debt.

+Abe Baxter You know it captain

What are you, five?

Are you his mother?

Wtf

@@rattylol lol

With all due respect; stop judging people by how they look.