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Silicon Valley's offerings are like the sirens from greek mythology: Very seductive but deadly.pic.twitter.com/m7TvrTu4q6
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It is very coherently possible (and necessary) to use offerings and simultaneously (and vocally) be critical of them. Or are you with out doubts when it comes to the valley titans? The "Siren Server" concept is nicely explained here: https://www.amazon.com/Who-Owns-Future-Jaron-Lanier/dp/1451654979/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 …
I think that it is very reasonable to be extremely critical of Silicon Valley, but at the same time I think that its innovations have been very overwhelmingly a force for good. Also, I think that Jaron Lanier's cultural criticism lacks integrity.
Agree, historically much of the innovation has been used for good. Yet given the current climate, greater caution, public discussion and participation is needed.
Do you remember the public discussion about car industry, health industry, oil industry, energy industry? Me neither. A bunch of the "participation" looks like a protection racket: look, nice tech company you have here, would be such a shame if something were to happen to it...
regarding the "protection racket" comment: How do you suggest entities such as the EU A) go about taxing Big-Tech (currently very difficult) and B) ensure they have a healthy local eco-system (after the US, currently only in China due to heavy protectionism) ?
The EU commission is pretty much indifferent to public concerns and only torn between the conflicting wishes of US and EU corporate lobbyists.
100% agree. Find it interesting how slowly new approaches are arising which aim to address this indifference: https://diem25.org/ (I'm not a member)
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