{"id":90002,"date":"2013-05-12T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90002"},"modified":"2013-05-12T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T21:11:07","slug":"jaron-lanier-the-internet-destroyed-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90002","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Lanier: The Internet Destroyed the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/05\/12\/jaron_lanier_the_internet_destroyed_the_middle_class\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not inclined to trust in the intellectual capacity of a white guy who wears his hair like he wishes he were a black guy, but you never know.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea of virtual reality. \u201cLanier is often described as \u2018visionary,\u2019 \u201d Jennifer Kahn wrote in a 2011 New Yorker profile, \u201ca word that manages to convey both a capacity for mercurial insight and a lack of practical job skills.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve never heard of him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Raised mostly in Texas and New Mexico by bohemian parents who\u2019d escaped anti-Semitic violence in Europe, he\u2019s been a young disciple of Richard Feynman, an employee at Atari, a scholar at Columbia, a visiting artist at New York University, and a columnist for Discover magazine. He\u2019s also a longtime composer and musician, and a collector of antique and archaic instruments, many of them Asian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, a Child of the Crust. I dislike him already.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His book continues his war on digital utopianism and his assertion of humanist and individualistic values in a hive-mind world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course nothing says &#8216;I&#8217;m an individualist and war against a hive-mind world&#8217; like a white guy wearing dreadlocks. No shit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. I am not inclined to trust in the intellectual capacity of a white guy who wears his hair like he wishes he were a black guy, but you never know. Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90004,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90002\/revisions\/90004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}