The world we live in
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1 min readMay 28, 2016
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Thoroughly original critique of conventional wisdom about web 2.0 trends: Lanier complains that the idea of a person is degraded by the techonology deployed on social networking sites which effectively fragments us into slivers of ‘content’ to be sold to advertisers who will pay to reach ever more precisely defined demographics.
Originally published at chblm.blogspot.co.uk on May 28, 2016.
