NewYorker: Episode 35: Jaron Lanier

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Could Citizens United be overturned? Jeffrey Toobin and Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, discuss what a Supreme Court dominated by Democratic appointees might do. Samantha Bee talks about how comedy hosts deal with tragedies like mass shootings. And the digital pioneer Jaron Lanier looks at how a utopian vision for the Internet went wrong. Jaron Lanier was a utopian idealist, pioneering virtual reality.Gore was optimistic about how the internet would help dispel bad information, about for example, global warming
  • There was a perverse information to spread bad information and advertising is the prime way to make money.
  • People need to control their data.
  • Once money is involved, accountants get involved and things get managed
We tend to look at people with Facebook accounts as chumps and don’t want our kids to get involved in it.

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