Tag: Displacement Activity

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier – part 2

    I’ve finished reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget,. The positive ideas he said would be at the end of the book never really arrived. He has to split his mind in two to be able to start questioning, never mind get answers. He views art and humanity from a humanist viewpoint and technology…

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier

    I’m reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget, at the moment. Lanier is one of the original geeky gurus of the net. He’s taking stock and having a think about where we are going in this book, which he calls a manifesto. I haven’t got to the manifesto part yet, but his musings are…

  • Double Speak

    British Gas are advertising price cuts at the moment. A concerned voice says, “We understand how difficult things have been, so we are making things easier for you by cutting our prices.” This is not quite true. What they mean is that the price of Gas has come dow to the point where they ca’t…