Non so se qualcuno stia seguendo la discussione (fra ieri e oggi, Riotta, Zambardino, Cotroneo) scaturita dall'ultimo libro di Lanier (You are not a gadget: a manifesto): c'e' un articolo a firma di Lanier su WSJ Word Wide Mush http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703481004574646402192953052.ht... e in particolare vorrei citare questo passaggio preso dal suo sito: ======================= http://www.jaronlanier.com/poleconGadgetqa.html Why has the idea that “the content wants to be free” (and the unrelenting embrace of the concept) been such a setback? What dangers do you see this leading to? The original turn of phrase was “Information wants to be free.” And the problem with that is that it anthropomorphizes information. Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is non-existent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way. What we have done in the last decade is give information more rights than are given to people. If you express yourself on the internet, what you say will be copied, mashed up, anonymized, analyzed, and turned into bricks in someone else’s fortress to support an advertising scheme. However, the information, the abstraction, that represents you is protected within that fortress and is absolutely sacrosanct, the new holy of holies. You never see it and are not allowed to touch it. This is exactly the wrong set of values. The idea that information is alive in its own right is a metaphysical claim made by people who hope to become immortal by being uploaded into a computer someday. It is part of what should be understood as a new religion. That might sound like an extreme claim, but go visit any computer science lab and you’ll find books about “the Singularity,” which is the supposed future event when the blessed uploading is to take place. A weird cult in the world of technology has done damage to culture at large. ========================= -- Interactivity is a property of the technology, while participation is a property of culture (H. Jenkins) ========================================== Eleonora Panto' CSP - Innovazione nelle ICT s.c.ar.l. via Livorno, 60 - 10144 - Torino - Italy office: +390114815111 - www.csp.it