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The Gory Antigora: Illusions of Capitalism and Computers

This discussion at the CATO is great reading, as is generally the case when reading Jaron Lanier. I took from it a lot more than that to which the title alludes. This piece is very relevant to those of us who make, govern or are active in online communities, let alone the software that goes into them. Sure, Jaron hits it right on when he talks about how software, as implemented, is brittle and as such is condusive to creating "locked in" environments that suppress change and support closed hierarchies but it is the ideas that the culture that builds up around these software bits are not only enabling, but essential to their success and this foundation is the more amazing aspect of the phenomenon we call the interweblinkz.


Definite must read and I think they are going to shortly make my list of Dailie's (which I need to add to this page as I just really can't bother to get all del.ic.ious, er whatever).

Thanks /. for the link.