Jaron Lanier: Fear of an Algorithmic Planet
Decoding the Gurus
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The Middle Class Is Where You Get Stability
There are problems of the middle class. My whole generation was a rebellion against it, you know. We want bespoke coffee houses and custom ad knives made by men with big, bushy beards - not some mas projuiced stuff coming out of silikan valley. But at the same time, i can't help but feel that part of that is like this fetishisation of i bespoke and local experience. And so you end up with all these little pique allusions. If you have just local settings that are different, then you have a different mathematical which starts to resemble a bell curve where you have a middle class in outcomes.
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