Jaron Lanier on The End of Human Specialness
Here’s a sobering article, from a tech innovator’s perspective, no less, about his conjecture that our era of insta-tweeting and live-blogging means that we’re letting ourselves spend too much time being a passive conduit through which someone else’s ideas travel, as opposed to infusing ourselves into those ideas.
That being said, uh, here I am being a passive conduit through which his ideas travel. But mostly because his idea is so revolutionary — that instead of a Long Tail, mega-Web sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) are ultimately making us less human — that I’m just not sure what part of myself I want to infuse.
