Webcast: Jaron Lanier Speaks at Yahoo

Jaron Lanier walked onto the speaking floor with ease as he addressed an overflow crowd at Yahoo!’s Mission College Campus on Wednesday, May 23. The collector of over 1,500 Balinese instruments delivered a talk entitled “Can Networks Be Better Designed to Suppress the Worst Qualities in Human Nature?” Lanier introduced his talk by referring to his essay, “Digital Maoism,” which resulted from the unearthing of an incorrect Wikipedia entry on him. His essay describes a phenomenon in the online world in which people have the desire to lose their identity and blend into a “big mush” and digital mobs.

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Source: Yahoo Research

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