“Kodak employed more than 140,000 people.” Yes, Kodak made plenty of mistakes, but look at what is replacing it: “When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people.” Extremely interesting interview with Jaron Lanier. This writer and a former employee of Atari explains how valuable are the informations we provide on everyday basis to the big data companies like Facebook. According to him the fact that this informations are being free is negatively affecting the economy. Lanier is a computer scientist, pioneer of Virtual Reality and creator of startups which are part of Google and Adobe now. He doesnt sounds like some sort of a XXI century Luddite to me but rather like a cyberpunk pointing out that the future could be very Blade Runner alike hight tech and low life youtu.be/XdEuII9cv-U - Video Two related The New York Times articles: nyti.ms/1lzekKG - review of the book Who Owns the Future? nyti.ms/1yPChpD - Will Digital Networks Ruin Us?
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:48:24 +0000
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