Tuesday, May 28, 2013
RE BBC JARON LANIER SYMBOLIC ANALYST DREAM WORLD WHO OWNS THE ECONOMY
Re: Sell Your Date To Save The Economy And Your Future
Here is Jaron in the laissez faire, technical expert, symbolic analyst's, dream land:
"If the biggest computers had to pay for information, they wouldn't cease to exist.
Instead big computers would have to earn their way by providing new kinds of value. Spying and manipulating would no longer be business plans, because the raw materials would no longer be free.
In fact, the owners of the biggest computers would do fine in a world of monetised information, because that would be a world with a growing economy."
Unfortunately, this is all bull.
It has been ' monetized '. It is ' monetized ' in a way.
A monetized web, furthermore, sadly, in spite of what you have been taught, has very little to do with
a ' growing economy ' (Whose economy? Not my economy...),
which is also, sadly, a doubtful concept, at this late stage...
(Where does ' the economy ' grow most?
Answer: China, coincidentally, a great internet hacker, thief and warrior;
just as an aside to Jaron's theses.)
Take, for example, individual bloggers, or individual or small business sellers' websites, with ads attached as part of an internet access package.
The obvious reality is that these small individual sites, supported by and beholden to the big servers and corporations backing them, have seen how little they are paid for the hits the big boys promote; and how uninterested in their blogs, or sites themselves, most internet surfers are.
Slightly subsidizing an enormous mass of small sellers (but big consumers) in order to really promote big sellers' products to those same small sellers but big consumers. A very successful model, but not for the small wannabe sellers.
Here are a few so called ' siren servers ' no doubt, Jaron's term, from my site:
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Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.
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