rn- You Are Not a Gadget

tags: refx, #readingnotes
book: You Are Not a Gadget
author: Jaron lanier
date: 2012
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If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists and artists, the society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty. If content is worthless, then people will start to become empty headed and contentless

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"It's easy to break into physical cars and houses, for instance, and yet few people do so. Locks are only amulets of inconvenience that remind us of a social contract we ultimately benefit from. It is only human choice that makes the human world function. Technology can motivate human choice but not replace it."