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.html
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.

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