Who Owns the Future? (Jaron Lanier, 2013)

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  • The problem is not the technology, but the way we think about the technology
  • Ordinary people will be unvalued by the new economy, while those closest to the top computers will become hyper valuable
  • Common distribution
    • Long tail - winner-take-all, starve themselves
    • Bell curve - mr. in-betweens, renew themselves
  • Siren server - giant companies suck up the data of users


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