noteworthy wrote:
Jaron Lanier, whose new book is "destined to become a must-read":

Web 2.0 is a formula to kill the middle class and undo centuries of social progress.

I read some of this stuff on edge and it seems a bit over the top. For example, the claim that "information wants to be free" is associated with the hacker scene and not the extropians - its merely a way of expressing that information is hard to control.

Encouraging creativity is not the purpose of something like wikipedia - the purpose is to collect a concensus view, which wikipedia does quite well, and frankly reputation systems are likely to become a greater part of wikipedia and they will track and credit and encourage individual contributions.

I guess the reason that this rant doesn't resonate with me is that reputation systems are the answer to this problem and they've been the answer for a long time now. Reputation systems credit individual contributions to the collective.

RE: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto