Siren Servers: Why Are We Ok With Giving Away Our Data?
Note: Jaron Lanier is one of the most important thinkers in our world right now. Most of the ideas in this post are from Lanier’s book Who Owns The Future. Anything in quotes is directly from Lanier....
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My post Siren Servers: Why Are We OK With Giving Away Our Data? did not get a single comment. It got two likes on Facebook and no retweets. But it’s been the post that’s generated the most emails from...
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If it’s free, you’re the product. If it’s extremely subsidized, you’re probably the product, too. Facebook is free. You’re the product. Google and Gmail are free. You’re the product. Mechanical Turk is...
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So far, I’ve talked about some of the downsides of the massive change from AI and path dependency: The sharing economy The accelerating pace of change Bad policy choices that exacerbate change How the...
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