Jaron Lanier at EDGE

*He's commenting on that Morozov-Shirky discussion, but there is so much of interest going on here that I must quote him.

http://www.edge.org/discourse/digitalpower.html

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"The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. There are some nice mob effects, but the intensity of the...