Below please find a link to a story about technological obsolescence. Discuss how the last part of Lanier's book might help us to understand and/or cope with this phenomenon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magazine/why-apple-wants-to-bust-your-iphone.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
Your response is due by 4 p.m., Sun., Nov. 3.
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. -- James Madison
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Who Owns the Future? (2)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/technology/google-sets-plan-to-sell-users-endorsements.html?hpw&_r=0
How does this article illustrate Lanier's thesis? Your response is due Wed.., Oct 23, by 4 p.m.
How does this article illustrate Lanier's thesis? Your response is due Wed.., Oct 23, by 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Who Owns the Future? (1)
What does Lanier see as the primary threat posed by digital networks? How would a proponent of the traditional libertarian theory of the press understand or interpret the threat?
Your response is due by 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct13. Thanks.
Your response is due by 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct13. Thanks.