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Jaron Lanier always seems to be about to make a deep, profound point, or to be talking as though he just made a deep, profound point. Somehow I always miss the
by randallsquared 14y ago
Jaron Lanier always seems to be about to make a deep, profound point, or to be talking as though he just made a deep, profound point. Somehow I always miss the point, though.
- fatbird 14y agoThis is my experience of him, too. I've never understood why he gets the attention he does, except perhaps that he fits a nice caricature of what people who want to be lectured at, think the lecturer looks like. Besides a branch of technology that fizzled out, he's contributed nothing of which I'm aware has had any real impact on my daily life. Being a perennial on the TED circuit is an effect, not a cause.
- rhizome 14y agoThe point is that he's sweeping away strawmen left and right, leaving himself at the center of what remains.